Do taxi drivers take the long way to the city from the airport?
Do Uber drivers do better?
Yes and Yes.
See the evidence in our just-published paper "Do Digital Platforms Reduce Moral Hazard? The Case of Uber and Taxis" with @MengLiu_WUSTL
and @JasonFKD
https://t.co/p9ulUXTJ8H
Web 4.0 will be everyone discovering that actually Web 1.0 was amazing and bringing the bulk of it back. Less surveillance, less centralization, less complexity.
"I don't understand their argument", opens @JonFortt, and he's not wrong! Apple's argument is inconsistent, capricious, and predatory. We don't WANT to understand Apple as being those things. But they are. https://t.co/aThXv060nR
The quality of your life depends more on your mindset than your circumstances.
With the right mindset, you can often convert unfavorable situations into unforeseen opportunities.
This screenshot is a Sales 101 course.
1) People buy four things: time, money, approval, and peace of mind.
2) People don't care about you. They care about the problem you're solving for them.
3) If you want to sell things, focus on being valuable and useful.
Just pulled out my copy of 'Factfulness' by @AnnaGapminder, @OlaRosling, and @HansRosling from two years ago.
In the chapter on the 5 biggest global risks the one that they listed as number one is a Global Pandemic.
Even more people should have had read their book.