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This would have been a pick until the last chapter… then too many inconsistencies in some of the statistics for me! #bookspin done!

Week 2 #Scarathlon2021 summary #TeamHendrix
Red Screen +16
Definitely Dead +56
The Four +56

Podcasts/TV/Film +55 (morbid podcast x 3, Zombieland 2, Sabrina x 3, AHS, Stranger Things, Servant x 2)

Total: 183 pts

Some pre-holidays serotonin boosters

Pretty interesting, something new to learn, but disorganized and a lot of repetitions.

Hello to all these new followers, too!

I hope to interact with you sometime soon :)

I don‘t always follow back right away because I try to keep my Litsy timeline easy to follow. I hope there are some things going on behind the scenes to improve some of this functionality.

I‘m good at what I do, but walking in each night, I remind myself we (NYU) are charging kids $500/minute for me and a projector. This. Is. Fucking. Ridiculous.

Luxury is irrational, which makes it the best business in the world. In 2016 Estée Lauder was worth more than the world‘s largest communications firm, WPP. Richemont, owner of Cartier and Van Cleef & Arpels, was worth more than T-Mobile. LVMH commands more value than Goldman Sachs.

The ultimate gift, in our digital age, is a CEO who has the storytelling talent to capture the imagination of the markets while surrounding themselves with people who can show incremental progress against that vision each day.

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity,” said Coco Chanel.

Consider that the telephone took 75 years to reach 50 million users, whereas television was in 50 million households within 13 years, the internet in 4, . . . and Angry Birds in 35 days. In the tech era, the pace is accelerating further: it took Microsoft Office 22 years to reach a billion users, but Gmail only 12, and Facebook 9.

People who received a great deal of attention for their looks at a young age are more likely to opt for cosmetic procedures when older. It‘s the same in business.

What‘s clear is that we need business leaders who envision, and enact, a future with more jobs—not billionaires who want the government to fund, with taxes they avoid, social programs for people to sit on their couches and watch Netflix all day.

No one has been able to aggregate more intention data on what consumers like than Google. Google not only sees you coming, but sees where you‘re going. When homicide investigators arrive at a crime scene and there is a suspect...they check the suspect‘s search history for suspicious queries...I suspect we‘re going to find that U.S. agencies have been mining Google to understand the intentions of more than some shopper thinking about detergent...

Google controls a massive amount of behavioral data. However, the individual identities of users have to be anonymized...People are not comfortable with their name and picture next to a list of all the things they have typed into the Google query box. And for good reasons. Take a moment to imagine your picture and your name above everything you have typed into that Google search box. You‘ve no doubt typed in some crazy shit...

Interesting!

I am starting this today. Curious to see about how Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google have infiltrated our lives.