Live from GOOP: "GoopGlow, ingestible. I drink one every single morning. It’s skin care from the inside. And I take my vitamins of course. I’m on the Madame Ovary, the premenopausal, I say without any shame"

I know you tried

I know you're cursed

I know your best was still your worst

When Hollywood was calling out your name

Saint Augustine.

The best of the worst at GOOP. Who? Well, G.P.

G.P. herself:

How many Goop products are on you, or in you, right now?

An embarrassing amount. GoopGlow, ingestible. I drink one every single morning. It’s skin care from the inside. And I take my vitamins of course. I’m on the Madame Ovary, the premenopausal, I say without any shame.

Well, forget them. What’s on your wrist?

This is a fitness tracker device. My trainer is a big proponent of walking. So I track my steps, and then three times a day I take loops around the office just to make sure I’m not sitting too much.

How are you doing today?

Today shouldn’t be too bad because I did cardio this morning. I’m already at 7,800 steps.

Amazing.

My goal is 10,000 per day, so I’m good. Yesterday I only did 3,500.


Some super important executive inadvertently confesses pay can't be that good at GOOP.

Gucci loafers?

I borrowed these from a friend.


We switch to the kitchen department at GOOP which is not yet finished.

Your skirt is similarly business-meets-kitchen. No nonsense.

It’s apron-y, which is why I was drawn to it. Utilitarian piece. G. Label.


Now over to the Pocahontas of editing at GOOP.

You have a very heavy wrist game.

It’s like a garbage dump.

I like your dress, a little bit prairie. On trend.

I feel like I really thrived in the ’90s — this reminds me of that. It’s Brock Collection.

And then a warrior sandal.

Paul Andrew. I’m trying to get into sneaker culture. It’s not my jam.


And it's on to the finance department at GOOP.

The Off-White sweatshirt! The tennies!

I’m the street Goop.

Has “G.P.” ever commented on your sweatshirt?

Probably.


Where there is finance there's got to be accounting. He did not get the Q.

Is your polo terry cloth?

It’s teal, and I picked it because of the color choice. And it breathes. It’s Zara.


Now here comes the gravitating content officer at GOOP.

How do you dress for work?

I’ve gravitated to jumpsuits, dresses that don’t wrinkle. I have two small boys. It’s messy work being the mother of dragons.

Tell me about the dress.

This is La Double J. I like that they’re high-necked or collared. It’s the most flattering look for me, with my haircut.

Those are the whitest white sneakers I’ve ever seen.

You can use a Magic Eraser on your shoes.


Can there be life at GOOP without a schtylist? No, and this one has arms.

How do you feel?

Fabulous.

Oh, good. Tell me about these high-waisted Frame Denim jeans.

Goop x Frame denim from last summer. Totally in my wheelhouse. Classic with an edge. Jeans every day.

You’re wearing your blazer as a cape.

It’s extra fashion, and I can do all sorts of things with my arms.


Head of V.I.P. who left her heels in the car.

Tell me about your shoes.

These are by Yuul Yie. I have heels in the car.

Very classic watch.

My sweet boyfriend gave it to me for my 33rd birthday. Black band. I wear a lot of black. I drive black cars. I’m from Jersey so I’m a little hood sometimes.


Finally to the Ret Op Ass @GOOP.

Is your dress linen?

It’s silk and linen. For a long time I used to just use neutrals. Now I’ll do a pop of color just to keep it fun. It’s Tuesday. Why not? And it’s not holding me in like a sausage.

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Read the full article. It is so worth it.

Could someone please slap me in the face now!

Cybersecurity best left in the hands of ... inexperienced

Fresh from the MIT press and it is sobering. Cost/benefit calculation.

Decision-Making and Biases in Cybersecurity Capability Development: Evidence from a Simulation Game Experiment

Conclusions

Using our simulation game tool, we have focused on understanding how managers make proactive investment decisions for building cybersecurity capabilities. In general, there are two properties that contribute to the difficulty of making informed, proactive decisions: 

• The trade-off between allocating resources to profitable activities versus investing in cybersecurity capabilities, with the perceived payoff for the latter being affected by the ‘delay’ between their development and reaching full functionality. 
• The uncertainty surrounding the occurrence of cyber events, as shown in the differences in results from the two levels of the simulation game.

Our experiment results present that neither experienced nor inexperienced players showed performance differences in the game. This suggests deeply entrenched decision-making heuristics, reinforced over years of experience, and is supported directionally by our analysis of learning curves in the experienced group. 

Inexperience drives dynamism. Good to know.

Experienced players who performed well in level one did not perform well in level two, and vice versa, suggesting that their strategies did not adapt to the environment in which they found themselves. Inexperienced players, on the other hand, showed much more dynamism in adapting to repeated runs and the changing environment between levels one and two (see Figure 10). 

This does not mean you can hire Joe Sixpack and be fine. Management experience is of limited help.

This is not to say that we do not recommend hiring experienced managers, but we conclude that management experience alone does not help when making decisions related to cybersecurity. Our results showed significantly positive learning effects on proactive decision-making among experienced managers. Therefore, training for better understanding of the complexities of cybersecurity is essential for experienced managers to improve their decision-making, and management flight simulators proved to be effective training tools.

Mind challenging games important.

Overall, our findings highlight the importance of correctly training decision-makers about cybersecurity capability development. We hope that our findings motivate the cybersecurity community to design and adopt enhanced educational and training programs that challenge entrenched mindsets and encourage proactive cybersecurity capability development. We note that the main mechanisms of our game are based on general capability development dynamics not limited to cybersecurity. 

Present situation leaves a lot to be desired.

The insight from this study of the importance of proactive decisionmaking can be applied in other settings as well, but it remains that the organizational aspect of cybersecurity, and particularly, decision-making for the development of cybersecurity capabilities, has not received adequate attention.

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Success on YouTube might mean you will still have to flip burgers

A sobering study on chances to strike it rich on YouTube.

YouTube channels, uploads and views: A statistical analysis of the past 10 years

Mathias Bärtl
Hochschule für Technik, Wirtschaft und Medien Offenburg, Germany

Abstract

To this date, it is difficult to find high-level statistics on YouTube that paint a fair picture of the platform in its entirety. This study attempts to provide an overall characterization of YouTube, based on a random sample of channel and video data, by showing how video provision and consumption evolved over the course of the past 10 years. It demonstrates stark contrasts between video genres in terms of channels, uploads and views, and that a vast majority of on average 85% of all views goes to a small minority of 3% of all channels. The analytical results give evidence that older channels have a significantly higher probability to garner a large viewership, but also show that there has always been a small chance for young channels to become successful quickly, depending on whether they choose their genre wisely.

Conclusion and discussion

One of the key observations presented in this article is the overwhelming dominance of very few channels over the rest of content on YouTube. The findings of this study provide strong indications that this macro-manifestation of the rich-get-richer phenomenon can be linked to two of probably three factors, namely (a) general processes ofgrowth and sharing of information (Crane and Sornette, 2008) and (b) a mismatch between supply and demand of content. Firstly, it is normal for videos or channels that have already been viewed by many to get more new views, simply because they have a greater sharing base. As channels and videos collect more views in the course of their lifetime, there is always a possibility to gather a critical mass of attention, but for most, it will take long and a lot of patience. Secondly, an overwhelming growth of, for example, People & Blogs channels against a moderate consumer interest creates an increasing mismatch between demand and supply and will naturally leave many channels with very few views. It is therefore not surprising that the channel category is a highly significant predictor of channel success. The data show that there has always been some space for newcomers to become successful quickly in categories with an expedient demand–supply ratio. A preliminary review of the channels from 2016 that made it to the top 3% within their first year of existence indicates a mix ofUGC and professionally produced videos, but this needs more analysis. However, it does give hope that YouTube’s ‘broadcast yourself’ rhetoric is not a complete fiction. A third factor (c), which probably accelerates the convergence of views towards a few content providers, is YouTube’s search and recommendation algorithms and video promotion sales (Kim, 2012; Zhou et al., 2011). That third factor is in the hands of YouTube and could be adjusted to help steer the platform at least somewhat towards a social networking ideal, improve the chances of young content providers to build a worthwhile viewership and thereby help keep the production of UGC interesting.

Pdf here

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