What would it take for Hulu to become more popular than Netflix? Although technology changes industries, Benedict Evans points out that most industries’ problems are not caused by technology, but by the industry itself. He gives Netflix and Hulu as an example: Hulu is not as big as Netflix not because of its compression quality, but because it has a smaller library of content compared to Netflix. Read full article here
Education
Overcoming Bias
Kai Cheng’s professor had a brilliant scheme. In his first lecture, he promised that each lecture would feature a “Lie of the Day”. But why? It made his students more attentive and analytical, poring over every detail of his lecture and making sense of why things were true. It was such a powerful teaching method that his students digested his most technical lectures quite easily because they tried so hard to catch his lie. The kicker? There was no lie in that first lecture; he had lied about that too! Read full article here
Merv
August 17, 2022
