Episode 372: Don’t do any editing

This week we discuss build vs. buy decisions, sustaining corporate strategies and Malcolm Gladwell’s WFH comments. Plus, we announce the location of the Austin Meetup on August 27th.

Runner-up Titles

• Strategy for eating mixed nuts.
• Finish in a flurry
• Eat Dessert First
• It’s about where you is, not where you was.
• We don’t even own a copy of Illustrator
• Lost his fastball
• Just a paycheck
• It’s cool to be the “turns out” person
• Pizza, Beer, Enjoyment
• McKinsey Titles, the movie

Rundown

• App Tracking Transparency (ATT) policy blew up the digital advertising ecosystem
  • Only the paranoid survive in tech: Former Intel CEO
• Netflix Games Engaging Less Than 1 Percent of Subscribers
• Gladwell’s take on Work from Home

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Nonsense

• French Scientist's Photo of ‘Distant Star’ Was Actually Chorizo

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• Brandon: Sea of Tranquility
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