#Netflix is not just a #streaming service it’s a global #entertainment powerhouse influencing #culture , #creativity , and viewing habits worldwide. But its success depends on more than #content and decisions made inside the company.
Netflix operates in a complex, fast-changing external environment, shaped by regulations, #technology , #market economics, consumer behaviour, and global challenges.

A #PESTLE #analysis helps us understand the macro-environmental factors that affect Netflix’s strategic decisions, risks, and long-term growth.
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#Netflix remains one of the world’s most influential #entertainment brands, even in a hyper-competitive #streaming market. Platforms like Disney+, Prime Video, Apple TV+, YouTube, and regional OTT players are constantly fighting for viewer attention, yet Netflix continues to hold a dominant global presence.

The reason?
A sharp, evolving, and highly data-driven #marketing #strategy .

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I’ve been #writing about #business models and #marketing strategies of top #tech platforms for a long time, and Netflix is one of the most fascinating #brands . Their story is all about reinvention — DVDs → streaming → originals → gaming → AI-driven entertainment.

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Isn't technology amazing by providing almost every gadget we need in one like smart phone?
By Hugo Keji

Absolutely, technology has indeed made incredible strides, and smartphones are a prime example of this advancement.
They have evolved from simple communication devices into powerful multi-functional tools that can perform a wide range of tasks.

Smartphones can:-
1. Make and receive calls and texts.
2. Access the internet for browsing, emailing, and social media.
3. Run a variety of applications for productivity, entertainment, education, and more.
4. Take high-quality photos and videos.
Provide GPS navigation.
5. Offer health monitoring features like heart rate tracking.
6. Enable contactless payments.
7. Control smart home devices.

This convergence of functionalities into a single, portable device has transformed how we interact with the world and manage our daily lives.

Here are some more detailed ways in which smartphones have integrated multiple technologies and functionalities:

Communication:-
Calls and Texts: Basic phone functions have expanded to include video calls and multimedia messaging.
Email: Full email functionality, including attachments and syncing across devices.

Instant Messaging: Apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, and Signal offer encrypted messaging and multimedia sharing.

Internet Access:-
Browsing: Full web browsing capabilities, often with ad-blocking and data-saving features.

Social Media: Dedicated apps for platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, Afriprime, Corkroo and healthdata101.

Streaming: High-definition video streaming from services like Netflix, YouTube, and Disney+.

Applications (Apps):-

Productivity: Tools like word processors, spreadsheets, presentation software, and project management apps (e.g., Microsoft Office, Google Workspace).

Entertainment: Games, music streaming (Spotify, Apple Music), and e-book readers (Kindle).

Education: E-learning platforms, language learning apps (Duolingo), and educational games.

Health and Fitness: Fitness tracking, diet and nutrition apps, meditation guides, and telemedicine services.

Photography and Videography:-

Cameras: High-resolution cameras with features like optical zoom, night mode, and portrait effects.

Editing: Built-in photo and video editing tools, as well as professional-grade apps like Adobe Lightroom and Premiere Rush.

Sharing: Instant sharing to social media or cloud storage services.

Navigation and Travel:-

GPS: Real-time navigation with traffic updates, route planning, and public transit information (e.g., Google Maps, Waze).

Travel Apps: Booking flights, hotels, and rental cars (e.g., Expedia, Airbnb), and ride-sharing services (Uber, Lyft).

Finance:-

Banking: Mobile banking apps allow for managing accounts, transferring money, and paying bills.

Payments: Contactless payments using NFC (e.g., Apple Pay, Google Pay) and QR code scanning.

Investments: Trading stocks, managing portfolios, and tracking cryptocurrencies (e.g., Robinhood, Coinbase).

Smart Home Integration:-

Control: Manage smart home devices like lights, thermostats, security cameras, and appliances through apps (e.g., Google Home, Amazon Alexa).

Automation: Set routines and automate tasks based on triggers like location or time of day.

Health Monitoring:-

Sensors: Track physical activity, heart rate, sleep patterns, and more.

Integration: Sync data with wearable devices like smartwatches (Apple Watch, Fitbit) and health apps (Apple Health, Google Fit).

Security:-

Biometric Authentication: Use of fingerprint sensors, facial recognition, and iris scanning for secure access.

Encryption: Secure communications and data storage.
Remote Management: Find and lock lost devices, and wipe data remotely.

Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR):-

AR Apps: Enhance the real world with digital overlays for gaming, navigation, and education (e.g., Pokémon GO, IKEA Place).

VR Experiences: Immersive experiences for gaming, training, and virtual tours using VR headsets (e.g., Oculus, Google Cardboard).

The convergence of these technologies into a single device has not only simplified many aspects of daily life but also opened up new possibilities for communication, entertainment, productivity, and beyond.

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BIAS-
The Trilogy of Errors: Hidden Influences on Your Decisions.
How psychologically blind, deaf, and dumb spots can unexpectedly derail judgment.

KEY POINTS-
While most people know about blind spots, fewer realize the destructive power of deaf or dumb spots.
These biases are equally lethal to the unsuspecting mind.
Awareness of the trilogy of errors is the first step to more intelligent decisions.

While bias blind spots are familiar to most people, deaf spots and dumb spots are probably less so. Yet, they are equally powerful forces on our perception, communication, and decision-making.

In 1969, psychoanalyst Rudolf Ekstein proposed integrating observation with patient dialogue to enhance decision-making. He identified blind spots (inability to see a problem), deaf spots (inability to hear accurately), and dumb spots (inability to speak openly) as key areas of consideration.

These elements form what I refer to as the "trilogy of errors," leading to significant human errors ranging from wrongful convictions to missed terrorist warnings to medical errors to financial scams. It's a long list.

In my book, TUNE IN: How to Make Smarter Decisions in a Noisy World, I outline three fundamental assumptions: what you see is not all there is, what you hear is not all there is, and what you say is not all there is.

Let’s explore blind spots.

1. Blind Spots
We interpret situations based on personality, beliefs, culture, context, and companions. Recognizing and understanding these factors helps explain past behavior and mitigate future errors.

Nobel laureate Richard Thaler underscores the impact of “supposedly irrelevant factors.” He argues that irrational factors like norms, emotion, or even the weather can subtly influence what we consume, what we read, who we follow, or when we invest. For example, you may be more critical because you’re hungry or spend more because it’s sunny out. These influences are insidious.

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Many individuals deny their biases, with studies indicating that 90% of people think they’re less susceptible to bias than the average person.

Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman’s concept of “what-you-see-is-all-there-is” or WYSIATI highlights the tendency to focus narrowly on what you know, which is, in turn, based on what you perceive or experience. It’s like seeing the tree but not the forest. It’s a form of bounded rationality or inattentional blindness caused by focusing on details and trusting what we see, not what we hear.

This was exemplified during World War II. The British press covered RAF test pilot John “Cats Eyes” Cunningham, whose exceptional record destroyed enemy aircraft at night. The media explained his nocturnal vision with pictures of him wearing sunglasses indoors and eating carrots. But his aircraft was carrying airborne interception radar. The Germans believed what they saw. It’s the same with what you hear.

2. Deaf Spots
Consider a Bing Crosby study where Dutch researchers told participants that a recording of white noise contained parts of the song White Christmas. Participants were instructed to press a button as soon as they heard it. Surprisingly, a third of those listening pressed the button. However, the recording contained no such music. What explains this? They expected to hear it. Apparently, mild hallucinations are common under stress, raising questions about the impact of noise on our minds.

Inattentional deafness. Akin to its visual counterpart, inattentional blindness further complicates our perception of reality. Our fixation on Instagram-type visual stimuli can render us "deaf" to auditory cues, sparking dangerous consequences. Often, you don’t hear something because your attention is fixed. Our visual focus renders us deaf as sound and vision share limited resources. For example, you mightn’t hear the alarm if you’re focused on a Netflix movie. In a visual world, house alarms, crying babies, and barking dogs fade into the background.

Inattentional deafness is related to the concept of deaf ear syndrome, which is exacerbated by biases such as the default to truth and confirmation bias, particularly in emotionally charged situations. We may hear what we hope to be true, deny unpleasant truths, or judge messages based on the messenger.

Blind and deaf spots, along with dumb spots, where individuals remain silent due to fear or social pressures, contribute to a trilogy of errors in judgment. If people self-silence, you can’t hear their voices.

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3. Dumb Spots
I heard a 15th-century English proverb growing up: “Children should be seen and not heard.” This would be unheard of today. Does this underpin our inability or unwillingness to speak out? Thousands of children abused by Catholic priests either self-silenced or were silenced by authority figures. Many victims didn’t speak out until years later.

People stay silent in various ways. Ghosting candidates, colleagues, or dates are unprofessional and unkind and often backfires.

In the workplace, dumb spots proliferate where employees maintain silence in the face of misconduct. In my own whistleblowing research, 91% of outraged employees declared an intention to speak up following exposure to a hypothetical bullying scenario. Yet shortly after, only 9% clicked a website for instructions. Firms like Theranos, FTX, Volkswagen, Boeing, and many more paid the price of complicit silence.

People tune out. There is truth in the statement by U.S. statesman Frederick Douglass: “To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker."

A 3D Perspective
In essence, the trilogy of errors underscores the complexity of human perception, communication, and decision-making. It's clear that what you see is not all there is; what you hear is not all there is, and what you say is not all there is.

Nevertheless, by tuning in to others and rebalancing what we see with what we hear, we can achieve better judgment in personal and professional settings. Many solutions exist to address this trilogy, and scientists and researchers have well-documented them. It's time to tune in.

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MOTIVATION-
Are You Too Good at Making Excuses?
How to keep your resistance from taking over.

KEY POINTS-
We are wired to resist things that prompt negative feelings like boredom, discomfort, or fear.
If we make excuses too convenient, we’ll let ourselves off the hook too often.
Making the default "yes" for our priorities makes us more likely to follow through.

Sorry, I can’t make it … this week is just too busy.

I wish I could help with that … but I have too much going on right now.

I want to hang out … but I’m too tired; I think I’ll just stay in tonight.

We’ve all uttered these statements at some point. And sometimes we really mean them: We have a tight work deadline or the flu or we have to take our kids four different places that day, so we actually can’t do the thing that’s asked of us (or that we ask of ourselves).

But have our excuses become too convenient?

There is one party that loves a convenient excuse: our internal resistance. We are wired to resist things that prompt negative feelings like boredom, discomfort, or fear. So what happens when modern culture gives us an easy way to resist these things with socially accepted excuses like busyness? We end up letting ourselves off the hook more often than we should—and more often than we really want. Instead of just saying no to things we can’t do, we also use “I’m too busy” to avoid things we just don’t feel like doing.

The problem is that the important things in life—building and maintaining relationships, caring for our kids or aging parents, pursuing interesting goals or hobbies, making meaningful contributions to the world—sometimes require doing things that we might not really feel like doing in the moment. But, if we give our resistance free rein and only show up for our friends when it’s convenient for us, it will be hard to maintain a friendship. If we always complain that we’re too tired to exercise, it will be hard to stay physically fit. And if we keep telling ourselves we’ll take that trip “someday when things settle down,” we might never take it.

The consequences of investing too little in our long-term values might not be as immediate or obvious as the overwhelm we experience when we take on too much, but it can still have a significant impact on our well-being. Overwhelm and burnout can make life feel bad, but avoiding them isn’t enough to make life good.

For life to be good, we need to need to do more than just subtract the negative; we also need to add the positive. We need meaning, connection, joy, purpose, and awe. But pursuing these values can sometimes require the kind of slow, hard, awkward, and deep work that makes our resistance cringe. Our resistance will try to grab onto any excuse it can for why we can’t or shouldn’t or don’t need to do the work right now.

So, how do we make it harder for resistance to win?

Use defaults and thresholds to elude excuses.
If we want to make it harder for our resistance to latch onto excuses, we can set up our defaults and thresholds so there’s less of an opportunity for excuses to creep in where we don’t want them.

Here’s what that looks like:

Decide what our main priority is this season
Make the default saying "yes" to that thing
Set a high threshold for overriding that "‘yes"
Making our default "yes" lowers the decision-making burden, and setting a high threshold takes away some of the wiggle room for resistance. Sticking with a default of "yes" is easier than having to decide from scratch every time. The only time we even need to consider whether we should follow through is when we’re near our threshold. And if we set our threshold high enough, that won’t happen nearly as often.

This can be especially helpful for things we want to do but often don’t feel like doing in the moment. Suppose I really want to get in shape, but I don’t usually find myself having a hankering for going to the gym or going outside for a walk. Instead of just waiting around for exercise inspiration to strike, I can make working out my default choice and then not let myself override it unless I have a really good reason.

So, when it gets to my scheduled workout time and I have the flu or my kid has a school concert, I know that those exceed my excuse threshold and I can reschedule my workout. But if it’s workout time and I’m just feeling a little tired or I’d rather scroll on my phone, I’m going to tell myself to still do it. I know that “I'm feeling a little tired” and “I’d rather scroll on my phone than work out right now” are not good-enough reasons to get over my excuse threshold. If they were, I would almost never work out.

How can we tell when we’re making excuses?
This doesn’t mean that we should never sit on the couch and scroll Instagram or binge-watch Netflix or bail on a party for a quiet night in. We can still intentionally set aside time for these things.

What we want to avoid are the unintentional ways we get sucked into things that don’t really matter to us, especially when this gets in the way of the things that do. If we often find ourselves mindlessly drifting toward what’s easy, quick, and comfortable, we should be wary of our appeals of being “too busy” or “too tired.” If we’re constantly avoiding the hard work of pursuing our deeper values, we might be overusing excuses to our own detriment.

Of course, making our default "yes" and setting a high threshold for overriding it won’t stop us from trying to get away with flimsy excuses. Our resistance might still try to convince us that we’re too busy or tired even when we’re not. And sometimes we’ll believe it. Other times, we’ll know it’s a flimsy excuse and we’ll give in anyway.

We’re not after perfection here. We can’t expect ourselves to never give in to excuses. But, we can at least give ourselves a fighting chance against resistance so we can show up for more of the life we really want.

Using Purpose and Meaning to Improve Your Well-Being.
A simple approach to the complex questions can generate numerous benefits.

KEY POINTS-
Meaning and purpose are distinct concepts with useful and independent roles to play in our lives.
Some simple reflections can help us identify our honest answers to these complex questions.
Meaning and purpose are invaluable and positively influence our physical, mental, and social health.
Thanks to recently watching "Live to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones" on Netflix, I have been continuously mulling over a missing routine in so many of our lives. Although I’d like to report that it is drinking mineral-rich, locally made Greek wine every day with friends, I’m referring to the Japanese practice of ikigai, which describes an individual’s "reason for being" and, subsequently, how beneficial individually determining our meaning and purpose in our lives is.

We have always been fascinated by ikigai and its synonymous philosophies, but we have also always been confused. Too often than not, meaning and purpose get conflated when they shouldn't. In this increasingly chaotic and turbulent world, we must recognise that these are no longer philosophical laments, but essential components of our internal experiences, with functional roles for navigating our lives.

So how do we understand meaning and purpose, and how do we begin to think about them more personally?

Meaning-
Broadly speaking, meaning is what gives you the sense of your life being set against a greater context. It is built from who you are, what you perceive as important in the world and in your life, and/or what sustains and nurtures you. It is multifaceted and doesn’t aspire to anything but your recognition.

One could find meaning in something lofty like nature or religion. On the other hand, you could find meaning in your friendships or in the simple act of running each day. Personally, I find meaning in my family and in good food from around the world.

In my book Meaning Inc., I talk about meaning in the context of work. However, you can start the process of discovering meaning in your life more broadly by.....

Feeding your passions: These are the activities, people, or things that interest and motivate you.
Nurturing your relationships: Social connections have repeatedly been linked to a heightened sense of meaning.
Taking stock of your moods: Not only are our moods and emotions indicative of our unconscious appraisals of different contexts and tasks, but encouraging positivity can also increase further meaning.
Purpose-
Purpose is the motivational and cognitive process that draws on your skills, experience, and ambitions for yourself and the world around you. It is more targeted than meaning and aspires to fulfill itself. Some theorists see it as entirely distinct to meaning, while others believe it is compartmental to it. No matter how you map it, it pertains to the role(s) you want to play in your life.

For many, this will refer to their purpose as a parent or an activist. For others, it may refer to the sense of purpose they get from discussing the issues they care about with people around them or tending to their garden each day.

More so than meaning, purpose can apply directly to one’s work. At Global Future, we help develop purpose-driven leaders because we know that it not only makes them better leaders but it makes them and their teams happier, too. Put simply, we ask leaders to spend time considering the following:

Reflect on your "journey"—i.e. the choices you’ve made in life so far, and why—so you may learn a bit more about what you’ve been trying to achieve.
Identify your strengths and where you have shown potential.
Consider the gaps in your life or the world more broadly so you may identify the areas in which you can have an impact that you will find most rewarding.
Meaning and purpose are by no means straightforward. They can be obvious or covert, simple or complex. We must be prepared to think deeply and constantly workshop our answers, recognising that they—and we—are dynamically engaging with our worlds.

Though it may sound like tiring work, the payoff is invaluable. Meaning and purpose are irreplaceable facets of well-being and have been shown to mediate our suffering, improve our sleep, and increase happiness, life satisfaction, and perceptions of control. Plus, if "Live to 100" is anything to go off, they quite literally give you life!

Why Isn’t The Ouster of Harvard's First Black President Going Viral Among Black Folks? Maybe Because Claudine Gay Doesn't Feel Like She's One of Us.
There’s one unassailable truism when it comes to Black social media: We will leverage X, TikTok, Facebook and the like to ride for those of us we love or whom we feel were genuinely wronged – just look at how we got the entire planet on our page in an unprecedented response to George Floyd’s murder.

But in the case of Harvard University’s now-former President Claudine Gay, things are mighty quiet on the Black Hand side.
There’s little doubt that Harvard, one of the country oldest institutions of naked white supremacy, would tolerate a Black woman at the helm but for so long. Her ouster should be enough for the pitchforks to come out from Black Twitter. But instead, we’re talking about swag surfin in church and Dave Chappelle’s new Netflix special.