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Human brains are not really built for social media feeds.Take the Illusory Truth Effect: if you see something repeated enough times, it seems true. Research shows that this happens regardless

A classic startup strategy is to "unbundle" a large company by attacking narrow areas to win segments. The classic depiction of this "Unbundling Craiglist," the firms on that list raised

A great example of borrowing innovation from one field for another. Doctors at a struggling children's hospital sent videos of their post-surgical hand-offs to Ferrari's F1 pit crew (see the

While I was reading about Theranos, I kept thinking about how much of the fraud was explained by "Symbolic Action." In a classic paper, Zott & Huy find that founders

Want to know the general model for how new technologies develop? A brief thread on the technology S-Curve, as illustrated by the evolution of the e-book (with a bit on

Tesla gets a lot of credit today, but this paper shows Edison mastered the psychology of new technology. To get people to use scary electricity he made it feel the

This paper shows that learning about how your firm works is equivalent to gaining Lovecraftian Secret Knowledge. Promising managers asked to do process redesign at their firm learn how messed

Interviewing job candidates to find out who you should hire (without careful training and planning) is just... bad. It exacerbates bias against minorities, and it results in worse assessments of

This game was one of the first commercial ventures between Woz & Jobs, helping launch one of the most important founding teams in history.It also played a role in ending

Tiny thread on an overlooked benefit of immigrant entrepreneurs: how they act as a bridge between the US & their home country in many ways. First, immigrant founders get more

Are you bored AND interested in shaping the course of human history? Write a Wikipedia article!Seriously, a lot of research shows that Wikipedia articles influence what science gets done, where

A thread on the research on managing virtual teams. Virtual teams are different than face-to-face teams in a bunch of key dimensions. This article is a great (and readable!) overview,