Overgrant anonymity, especially to direct quotes. I've written “ you can always find an anonymous former employee to trash the founder. ” There's a school of thought in some journalism circles that anonymity is a precious privilege to…

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SHANGHAI — China has flooded cities and villages with battalions of neighborhood busybodies, uniformed volunteers and Communist Party representatives to carry out one of the biggest social control campaigns in history. The goal: to keep…

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Last year, Ben Zhao decided to buy an Alexa-enabled Echo speaker for his Chicago home. Mr. Zhao just wanted a digital assistant to play music, but his wife, Heather Zheng, was not enthused. “She freaked out,” he said. Ms. Zheng…

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The mayor of Amsterdam has sought to win political backing for her cleanup of the overcrowded red-light district by revealing that a third of foreign tourists would be less likely to visit the city again if they were barred from buying cannabis in…

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This is a recent tweet-storm that I wanted to cross post here as well as I feel so strongly about the lessons. 1/ So much of building a product/company is about progressive discovery. You build something, you figure out something else, then you…

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