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Chief product officer at the live-shopping marketplace Whatnot, previously chief product officer at Twitch and a product lead on growth at Twitter.

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  Live commerce works at audience sizes that would be uneconomic for live entertainment, because commerce does not run on CPMs.

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  commerce has totally different economics to entertainment and CPMs aren't the thing that you have to worry about.

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Chief Product and Technology Officer at Netflix, previously VP of Science at Lyft and an economist at Analysis Group.

From one piece Why Netflix is betting on systems thinkers—not specialists—in the AI era | Elizabeth Stone (CPTO) 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Entertainment without humans at the heart of it does not work: storytelling is a scarce human skill, and characters without that humanity are less compelling.

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  I have a hard time picturing entertainment that doesn't have humans at the heart of it. So that that's humans in the creation of the storytelling, which I think is a scarce and valuable skill.

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  Netflix is not losing the talent war to the frontier AI labs; it competes for a different person — one excited by applying technology to entertainment at scale.

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  It does feel like we have to be more more explicit about the types of people and talent that tend to thrive at Netflix versus other companies like some of the frontier labs.

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Director of institutional asset management at Ritholtz Wealth Management. Writes the A Wealth of Common Sense blog and co-hosts the Animal Spirits podcast with Michael Batnick.

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  Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live

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  Come for the stories about one of the msot storied franshises in entertainment history. Stay for the business and leadership lessons from Lorne Michaels.

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Game designer; wrote A Theory of Fun for Game Design and worked on Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies.

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  Lavish feedback wrapped around no real problem is shallow entertainment at best and exploitation at worst.

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  At minimum you’re making shallow entertainment. At worst, you are building exploitative entertainment.

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Social scientist at King's College London; writes The Great Gender Divergence on why societies differ in how they treat women.

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  Improving entertainment technology raises the bar parenthood has to clear, because people have children when it looks more fun than the alternatives.

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  People are more likely to have kids if it’s FUN - relative to alternatives. As entertainment-technology improves, it generates a tantalising menu of ways to spend our lives.

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Indian software engineer and co-founder of Skcript; builds web apps and writes at varunraj.in.

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  iPhone 16 Pro

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  The device I rely on for communication, entertainment, and everything in between.

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Writer and former McKinsey/BCG strategy consultant; author of The Pathless Path and Good Work, about leaving the default career track. Publishes the Boundless newsletter and podcast.

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  Leisure: The Basis of Culture

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  A short but powerful reflection from post-WWII Germany on 'true leisure' not mere relaxation or entertainment—is fundamental to human flourishing and the foundation of a meaningful life and culture.

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Social scientist at King's College London; writes The Great Gender Divergence on why societies differ in how they treat women.

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  Personalised online entertainment has got good enough to crowd out socialising, and with it the forming of couples.

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  My suspicion is that massive improvement in quality of online entertainment crowd out socialising and development of social skills, possibly hurting relationship formation as well as desire for children within marriage.

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Author of The Simple Path to Wealth and of the jlcollinsnh.com stock series on index-fund investing.

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  E=MC2

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  Read it for the sheer entertainment and, as a bonus, like me you might just come away with a better understanding of the equation.

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Music critic and historian; author of The History of Jazz and Music: A Subversive History. Writes the newsletter The Honest Broker on music and culture.

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  The fastest-growing part of the culture economy is not art or entertainment but distraction.

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  The fastest growing sector of the culture economy is distraction.

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Programmer and designer who writes at tonsky.me; author of Fira Code, DataScript and AnyBar.

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  Nintendo Switch

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  For entertainment I’m super happy with the Nintendo Switch, which has a multitude of great games

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