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Later today I find out if United Airlines remembers me. My last flight was in February 2020. I think. But I’m excited and grateful.

Here are my pre-boarding announcements.

• I joined Niko Partners as an advisor. Lisa Hanson leads what is hands down the #1 insights provider on the Asian games market, and I’m excited to join the effort.

• Listen to NYU colleague Scott Galloway trying to pronounce my name. Also, I said a few things about Netflix.

• a16z has a shiny new website (although that blue is a bit too blue for my taste) and asked me to pen 1,000 words on user generated content. There’s more on its way, but this is a good start.

• After two years my co-applicants and I finally received word on having won a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. Under Dwayne Winseck’s supervision, we embark on a study called the Global Media and Internet Concentration Project to establish whether or not media – collectively and individually – are becoming more or less concentrated. Pre…