Archive - Five Easy Pieces

Will the West ever get its Super App?

On path dependence and user behavior

Feb 1, 2023

January 2020

Five Easy Pieces—The reverse management phenomenon

Failing at the basics

Jan 28, 2020

July 2019

Five Easy Pieces — Curation as a Service

A service to culture

Jul 7, 2019

February 2019

Five Easy Pieces — Blumhouse, not Netflix, is the film production innovator to watch

A process for taking a chance on stories

Feb 7, 2019

January 2019

Five Easy Pieces — Steve Jobs was wrong about middle management

Growing companies desperately need good managers

Jan 18, 2019

Five Easy Pieces — Why Digital Native Vertical Brands are boring

Economics shaping aesthetics

Jan 13, 2019

Five Easy Pieces — Television’s 1993 future is being recreated on the Internet

Content + Commerce

Jan 11, 2019

Five Easy Pieces — Flat organizations are the most hierarchical

An explicit management structure is necessary to distribute power

Jan 9, 2019

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