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The advent of social media and networks has transformed a part of civic institutions and associative life, the fabric of society, into means of production, to be owned, mined and controlled, in a centralized fashion. The social fabric has been digitalized into a web, trapping its users. The amount of social interactions happening now through the medium of privately owned tools, whose incentives do not align with their users, is disquieting. I therefore join Scott Galloway, Ben Thompson (and m...

[Ndlr : je lai pas revisé pour typos] The way of the book. And silently brainstorming in downtimes (boring manual activities). This is, and remains, the optimum way in which minds intake and organize informations. Buffet's famed "reading diet" - 500 pages a day. Podcasts, audiobooks, won't cut it. It never changed. As Nassim Taleb says, respect the old and look for habits and rules that have been around for a long time. I (wrongly) thought I could add podcasts and audio media to my "diet". Well...

Literally a shower thought. Nothing not already obvious to anyone reading business history though. I'm sure VCs already found a catchy word for this. The thought ? "The best way to get a place in the mainstream neighbourhoods is by digging a tunnel under your niche." Amazon started with books, Facebook college campuses, Sainsbury butter. What did they have in common ? Very competitive markets with already established players. Why am I wasting your time for such obvious facts? It all becomes int...