Netflix auto-playing previews for every single show is one of the most pronounced user-hating experiences online in a while. I get that it helps juice the audience count, but it turns browsing into a game of hot potato.
Megan Quinn
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Megan Quinn
@msquinn
Investor, builder, board director. On the road w/ @mgsiegler, trying to make @maisiesiegler & @maevesiegler proud.
- I’ve never met a successful executive (regardless of industry, function, gender, etc) who didn’t check email on the weekends or ‘after 5pm.’ Work-life blend became a reality well over a decade ago. Owning that is more powerful then blindly saying it isn’t true to succeed.
- “The algorithm performed with flying colors. It correctly identified 92% of patients who developed Alzheimer’s disease in the first test set & 98% in the second test set. It made these predictions more than 6yrs before the patient received their diagnosis”
- With all the attention on the market, black hole pics, TWTR takeover noise - we missed they found the cause of SIDs?! The cause of 37% of infant deaths & it just…passed us by. Closest thing to a miracle in a long time. Now for screening & prevention.
- Took me a month but finally realized that 98% of VC tweets are really meant for other VCs. (Leaders at high growth cos have no time.)
- Nearly every woman I know well has suffered from pregnancy loss, infertility challenges, or something on the spectrum in-between. And yet, it’s the The Thing we don’t talk about - I’d wager the biggest thing. I hope that changes in the years ahead - and that tech plays a role.
- If you had told me 10 years ago that I would spend 50x more time on LinkedIn than Facebook, I would have never believed you.
- Recruiter outreach of the day: “My client is a crypto currency hedge fund, the CEO would love a COO who loves Burning Man and may have even built a camp.” In case anyone’s curious about the going prerequisites for a COO gig…
- I would pay double for business books to be half as long (as nearly all could / should be).
- People will say Clay’s best book was his most famous one — but it wasn’t. It was “How Will You Measure Your Life” — a riff on his closing lecture each semester at HBS. It’s far more important. Here are his lecture notes:
- Yesterday, while loading the conveyer belt at a grocery store, the older man ahead of me at pay station reached into his pocket to get his credit card & his handgun dropped to floor & spun down the aisle. The (pregnant) woman behind me & I jumped out of the way.
- Replying to @msquinnHe fumbled to grab it while muttering that it wasn’t loaded but — really, who knows? Anyway...I’ve been single issue voter for a long time I will continue to be until episodes like this are deemed entirely unacceptable.
