Tag: Amazon
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Amazon Allegedly Aold “Suicide Kits”
This is an insane story, that I thought was going to be incredibly sensationalized. It’s not. I don’t know how much blame lies with Amazon all told, but this is an example of dumb AI in the form of a recommendation algorithm being a bigger problem than the godlike AI people fear. Amazon allegedly sold…
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Books of 2019
Happy New Year, and new decade! I started last year with many ambitious goals, and I failed most of them. I intended to read at least 36 books in 2019 and only completed 14, oh well. For those interested these are the books I read over 2019: Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass…
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Play Bigger, Book Review
In an older post, I claim most marketing books suck. I stand by this; Most marketing books are garbage, rehashing other, older books, written to convince big companies who can hire consultants, to hire the authors. In that post, I quote Play Bigger: How Pirates, Dreamers, and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets — because it’s the…
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The Four, Book Review
Written by Scott Galloway, “The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google” reads like the highest aspiration of the edgy business book genre. Flipping to any page, and putting a finger on any sentence gives you about a 70% chance of reading an (at least semi) meaningful insight, wrapped in a warm…
