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"In our assessment of 35,000 leaders and interviews with 250 more, we found that the more senior a person’s role is, the more sleep they get. ... It used to be a badge of honor to brag about sleeping few hours, but our research should serve as inspiration for aspiring leaders to make sleep sacrosanct. The key message: If you want to be an effective leader, and rise in the ranks, get enough sleep."

I don't have much more experience as a manager than you do but here are some thoughts. 1. Share the roadmap with your team once confirmed by management 2. Don't force your implementation on the team but let them come up with it and use it as long as it is good enough 3. The time will never come that you feel that your reports are ready for hand over - it will only come by necessity when you are asked to take on more responsibilities so that you have no choice but to hand off this work. So, you may as well start the hand over today as there will never be a better time.

Absolutely not. None of this is possible or even desirable. We don't want to watch optimized video. We want to watch stories that move us, created by geniuses like Coppola, or whoever you think is good.

There's no personalized targetting in content. It's really one size fits all, or at least the regular S-M-L. It is, obviously, impossible to make different shows for millions of individuals.

What Netflix has is more detailed data of what people watch. So will its competitors is just a few years.

What matters in content is the content of that content. Ideas, emotions, excitement. Technology is irrelevant.

Fast nearly free exponential distribution

Just because you make an app and publish it to the App Store doesn't mean that it is "distributed" to anyone at all. There are massive costs to marketing apps because apps are commodities.

Amazon can't reduce margins without fundamentally changing the nature of Whole Foods. If they lower margins they will leave their current segment and enter a lower cost segment, with the corresponding changes in service, offerings and overall customer experience. They could do it by subsidizing lower margins in the short but not the long term.

People who purchase a service from Grab are purchasing from a company. Not from independent businesses. There is no difference whatsoever from buying from Amazon. Delivery people perform tasks just like the people working in Amazon's warehouses or delivering their packages.

Not necessary. Let Uber and Lyft run out of venture capital and start running their businesses in a P&L world and they'll soon have to adapt to markrt realities, including establishing a benefits system to keep the people who work for them today working for them in the future.