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The tech behemoth is facing antitrust rulings over its adtech practices in both the U.S. and Europe.Read More

Paramount is bringing over 11 minutes of in-show branded content to the VMAs.Read More

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Ray-Ban’s campaign capitalizes on Korean pop culture’s growing global influence.Read More

For many years, TVSpy was a leading blog about local TV before being shut down.Read More

Reels will be featured more prominently in the Instagram iPad app, with Stories still positioned at the top.Read More

NBA chief marketing officer Tammy Henault is leaving the league after three years.Read More

Scope3 is cutting some jobs as part of what it characterizes as a strategic restructuring.Read More

WPP named Ogilvy global CEO Devika Bulchandani as chief operating officer, while Laurent Ezekiel will become executive sponsor for WPP Open X.Read More

One sort of delusion is believing that we’re smart and skilled simply because we got lucky. This perpetuates a cycle of bad decisions that just happened to lead to good outcomes, and causes people to confuse their wins with heard-earned skill.

Often, when someone successful in one field (where they compounded an early lead) moves into another one, they seem arrogant and unwilling to learn and experiment. They were confused about what led to their previous success.

The other sort of delusion works in the other direction. If we’ve done the reading and shown up to do the work, if we’ve built skills and muscles but haven’t succeeded yet, it’s easy to be hindered by self-doubt that might not be valid or useful. Acknowledging the luck we haven’t received yet can open the door to better decisions and more persistence.

Luck is unevenly distributed, unpredictable and unfair. If it weren’t, it wouldn’t be luck.

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