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the tension between commoditization and product differentiation — that is, between wanting to sell in a thick market to buyers even if they don’t care who you are, and trying to make your product special enough that many buyers will care
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“The thickness of the Amazon marketplace — the ready availability of so many buyers and sellers — is self-reinforcing.”
― Who Gets What - And Why: The Hidden World of Matchmaking and Market Design
― Who Gets What - And Why: The Hidden World of Matchmaking and Market Design
“We may, without even realizing it, work backward to generate persuasive-sounding theories that rationalize them, and these will often fool our friends and colleagues as well as ourselves.”
― The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't
― The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't
“Men may construe things, after their fashion / Clean from the purpose of the things themselves.”
― The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't
― The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't
“The culture and ideology fostered in this globalization process relate largely to “lifestyle” themes and goods and their acquisition; and they tend to weaken any sense of community helpful to civic life.”
― Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
― Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
“This bias is politically advantageous to U.S. policy-makers, for focusing on victims of enemy states shows those states to be wicked and deserving of U.S. hostility; while ignoring U.S. and client-state victims allows ongoing U.S. policies to proceed more easily, unburdened by the interference of concern over the politically inconvenient victims.”
― Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
― Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Jason Zhang’s 2024 Year in Books
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391 books
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