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IKEA’s Best Selling Product Is Not Furniture

Dave Chappelle has a moment in his Netflix special, Equanimity, where he gives the punchline to a joke at the very beginning — and still guarantees a laugh when you finally hear the joke. It got me thinking. Spoilers or not, some stories are so good, even if you know the ending, you’ll still want to […]
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Daniel Sim, Co-Founder of Born Poor, Die Rich

Daniel Helps People Create Passive Income Through Property Investments What’s your story?Growing up, the lack of money was often a source of tension. I did well in school and spent 10 years in the public sector, serving as the Assistant Director of Organisational Development (OD) in the Prime Minister’s Office. However, I was working long […]
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Chloe Cortinovis, Managing Director at Bienvenue Factory

Tools for Smart Omni Channel Retail Strategies  What’s your story?I have been practicing music since the age of six, reaching some of the highest levels in my field. Music has had a major influence on both my professional and personal life! It not only taught me discipline but also diligence and perseverance. I have been […]
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Reasons Why Talented People Have Failed in Their Careers

The following are excerpts from interviews with people whose work we respect and who would like to remain anonymous. How have you seen talented people fail in their work? Not spending enough time on their mental health Burning out. As a way of preventing burnout, try to figure out as best you can whether that […]
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Some Reflections on Collective Technologies

I’ve been thinking about collectives in technology for a while. Collectives in the sense of organisation, and collective in the sense of shared, social value, distinct from individual benefits. In tech, that simultaneously means products and services which serve shared needs, not just individual ones; Doteveryone’s research into digital attitudes last year showed that people were increasingly feeling that […]
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What I Learnt from Scaling one of Asia’s Fastest Growing Startups

I joined iPrice in the summer of 2016. At the time, a very promising regional affiliate player with an encouraging initial traction and around 1M monthly users. I left at the end of last year, after a terrific journey which saw us becoming the leading meta-search e-commerce aggregator in SEA, growing our userbase to over 15M monthly […]
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Working Smart & Working Hard

Some of the best parts of my time at Mozilla were the moments of brilliant humility. We had assholes, to be sure, but there would be these moments… 20 people sitting around a conference table during an all hands. Each of them brilliant. Brilliant like I’ve rarely met before or since. The people in that room could reinvent […]

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Discord And Microsoft: How Do You Create Momentum?

The Wall Street Journal reports that Microsoft is talking to Discord about acquiring the social audio company created in 2015, that has more than 250 million users and has so far focused primarily on creating communities of video game fans. The trigger for these talks has been the surprise success of Clubhouse, which is even smaller than Discord, but […]
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Platforms Are The Future Of Intelligence

As we organize human work and learning at fantastic scales, let’s strive for something inspiring. Through our relationship with machines, humans are building a new, synthetic intelligence. Organizations are the home for this part-human, part-machine intelligence. The topic to which we now turn is the role organizations play in coordinating the immense scale of work and […]
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How China Is Transforming Its Economy Through Learning

I highly recommend reading the McKinsey Global Institute’s new report, “Reskilling China: Transforming The World’s Largest Workforce Into Lifelong Learners”, which focuses on the country’s biggest employment challenge, re-training its workforce and the adoption of practices such as lifelong learning to address the growing digital transformation of its productive fabric. How to transform the country […]
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