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51Another reports large B2C newsletters happily paying $3–$5 at scale, while some clients need under $1.25 to break even on day one.Content That Is the Ad: Buying Curious Attention in Late 2026, and the Stack Behind ItFigureADHD & attention$3–$5Sep

52Beehiiv lists a $1.63 average cost per subscriber for Boosts (early-access data) and a $50 minimum.Content That Is the Ad: Buying Curious Attention in Late 2026, and the Stack Behind ItFigureADHD & attention$1.63Sep

53A vendor analysis puts SparkLoop at $4–7, but with 35–45% first-30-day open rates versus 22–30% for Meta lead ads.Content That Is the Ad: Buying Curious Attention in Late 2026, and the Stack Behind ItFigureADHD & attention$4–7Sep

54Chris's "30% of scrollers have attention problems" should be restated.Content That Is the Ad: Buying Curious Attention in Late 2026, and the Stack Behind ItFigureADHD & attention30%Sep

55In Ipsos's May 2026 test (20 ads, 3,000 US consumers), only 25% could confidently tell which ads were AI-made, but 79% said companies should disclose AI use.Content That Is the Ad: Buying Curious Attention in Late 2026, and the Stack Behind ItFigureADHD & attention25%Sep

56In one study, 37% of incorrect solutions got Aha ratings higher than the average for correct ones (Danek & Wiley, 2017).Correct but Not Yet Known: The Science of Treating a Fast Intuition as a Verified ConclusionFigureOther37%Sep

57Stuyck, Cleeremans & Van den Bussche (2022, Cognition, N=106) gave people word puzzles under increasing working-memory load:Correct but Not Yet Known: The Science of Treating a Fast Intuition as a Verified ConclusionFigureOtherN=106Sep

58Laukkonen, Kaveladze, Tangen & Schooler (2020, Cognition), preregistered, n=300: statements accompanied by an anagram the participant had just solved got higher truth ratings even when false.Correct but Not Yet Known: The Science of Treating a Fast Intuition as a Verified ConclusionFigureOthern=300Sep

59Seventy participants tried to explain magic tricks and produced 1,778 solutions; 63.2% were incorrect.Correct but Not Yet Known: The Science of Treating a Fast Intuition as a Verified ConclusionFigureOther63.2%Sep

60Time pressure was the root cause of 40% of defects in a telecom case study (Leszak et al., 2000).Correct but Not Yet Known: The Science of Treating a Fast Intuition as a Verified ConclusionFigureOther40%Sep

61Expected defects rose 47.1% from the lowest to the highest time pressure (Cataldo, 2010).Correct but Not Yet Known: The Science of Treating a Fast Intuition as a Verified ConclusionFigureOther47.1%Sep

62In a longitudinal study, Besker, Martini & Bosch (2018, TechDebt '18) found that developers "waste, on average, 23% of their development time due to TD" and are frequently forced to introduce new debt because of debt that already exists.Correct but Not Yet Known: The Science of Treating a Fast Intuition as a Verified ConclusionFigureOther23%Sep

63Allcott, Gentzkow and Song estimate that 31% of social media use comes from self-control problems.Diagnosing the Feed: Why Scrolling Works, Why X Feels Like a Town Square, Where Content Turns Into Advertising, and How CANOPTICON Can Use All ThreeFigureADHD & attention31%Sep

64The chronological feed cut uncivil content on Facebook by 43%.Diagnosing the Feed: Why Scrolling Works, Why X Feels Like a Town Square, Where Content Turns Into Advertising, and How CANOPTICON Can Use All ThreeFigureADHD & attention43%Sep

65In a 2026 paper, Artiles et al. showed that when Claude Opus 4.7 was asked for novel-yet-feasible idea combinations, its ten most-used concepts appeared in 95.7% of outputs.Net-Casting: A Practice for Turning AI Research Into a Generative, Mind-Changing CraftFigureMcLuhan & media theory95.7%Sep

66Laukkonen, Kaveladze, Tangen and Schooler showed in a preregistered study ("The dark side of Eureka," Cognition, 2020) that an "Aha!" moment triggered by solving an unrelated anagram made false statements feel truer (n = 300, d =.629).Net-Casting: A Practice for Turning AI Research Into a Generative, Mind-Changing CraftFigureMcLuhan & media theoryn = 300Sep

67India's MGNREGA reached 51 million households in 2016.A Public "Accept-the-Offer" Work Platform: Does It Exist, and Is It Crazy?FigureAttention & feeds51 millionSep

68Canadian federal inmates already can be disciplined for refusing work, and they earn at most $6.90 a day.A Public "Accept-the-Offer" Work Platform: Does It Exist, and Is It Crazy?FigureAttention & feeds$6.90Sep

69It projects 11–16 million enrollees and costs of $378–$415 billion a year.A Public "Accept-the-Offer" Work Platform: Does It Exist, and Is It Crazy?FigureAttention & feeds11–16 millionSep

70INET Oxford reports that the Austrian government has since committed €50 million to extend the model.A Public "Accept-the-Offer" Work Platform: Does It Exist, and Is It Crazy?FigureAttention & feeds€50 millionSep

71The 2025 official evaluation by DARES and France's Haut-Commissariat à la Stratégie et au Plan found a +74 percentage-point causal effect on employment over 24 months.A Public "Accept-the-Offer" Work Platform: Does It Exist, and Is It Crazy?FigureAttention & feeds24 monthsSep

72It is a legal right to 100 days of unskilled paid work per rural household, and it reached 51 million households in 2016.A Public "Accept-the-Offer" Work Platform: Does It Exist, and Is It Crazy?FigureAttention & feeds100 daysSep

73It paid unemployed heads of household in exchange for up to 20 hours a week of community work, training, or subsidized private work, and it was administered through municipalities.A Public "Accept-the-Offer" Work Platform: Does It Exist, and Is It Crazy?FigureAttention & feeds20 hoursSep

74PES launched in October 2020 and has created more than 1.5 million work and livelihood opportunities.A Public "Accept-the-Offer" Work Platform: Does It Exist, and Is It Crazy?FigureAttention & feeds1.5 millionSep

75It paid around HUF 50,000 a month against a minimum wage of HUF 73,815, and between 2010 and 2016 it cost HUF 1,300 billion (€4.15 billion).A Public "Accept-the-Offer" Work Platform: Does It Exist, and Is It Crazy?FigureAttention & feeds1,300 billionSep

76A van picked up panhandlers for a five-hour shift of city beautification, paid $9/hour (about $45) in cash the same day, and connected them to services.A Public "Accept-the-Offer" Work Platform: Does It Exist, and Is It Crazy?FigureAttention & feeds$9Sep

77Niskanen Center critics argue that a $15-plus-benefits US guarantee would impose a "massive" cost shock on low-wage employers.A Public "Accept-the-Offer" Work Platform: Does It Exist, and Is It Crazy?FigureAttention & feeds$15Sep

78France's roughly €12,000 net cost per job per year is the most credible Western benchmark.A Public "Accept-the-Offer" Work Platform: Does It Exist, and Is It Crazy?FigureAttention & feeds€12,000Sep

79Youth unemployment hit 14.2% in April 2026, per The Hub, and teen unemployment reached 20.2% in Q1 2026.A Public "Accept-the-Offer" Work Platform: Does It Exist, and Is It Crazy?FigureAttention & feeds14.2%Sep

80Officials say this cut eligible low-wage applications 70%.A Public "Accept-the-Offer" Work Platform: Does It Exist, and Is It Crazy?FigureAttention & feeds70%Sep

81It cut caps to 10% of an employer's workforce.A Public "Accept-the-Offer" Work Platform: Does It Exist, and Is It Crazy?FigureAttention & feeds10%Sep

82From July 2026, the low-wage threshold is 120% of median wage.A Public "Accept-the-Offer" Work Platform: Does It Exist, and Is It Crazy?FigureAttention & feeds120%Sep

83But ESDC notes that TFWP workers are about 1% of the workforce.A Public "Accept-the-Offer" Work Platform: Does It Exist, and Is It Crazy?FigureAttention & feeds1%Sep

84Pay under Commissioner's Directive 730 is $6.90/$6.35/$5.80/$5.25 a day across levels A–D.A Public "Accept-the-Offer" Work Platform: Does It Exist, and Is It Crazy?FigureAttention & feeds$6.90Sep

85The same OCI report puts take-home pay at "about 46 cents an hour" for the most common pay level after deductions, and notes the 1981 top rate of $7.55 a day equals $23.07 in today's dollars.A Public "Accept-the-Offer" Work Platform: Does It Exist, and Is It Crazy?FigureAttention & feeds$7.55Sep

86UNICOR (Federal Prison Industries) workers "typically earn between 23¢ to $1.15 per hour," according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons, which says only 8% of work-eligible inmates take part and about 25,000 are on the waiting list.A Public "Accept-the-Offer" Work Platform: Does It Exist, and Is It Crazy?FigureAttention & feeds$1.15Sep

87PREP, the Bureau of Prisons' 1990s study of more than 7,000 releases, found UNICOR workers 24% less likely to reoffend, plus better in-prison behaviour.A Public "Accept-the-Offer" Work Platform: Does It Exist, and Is It Crazy?FigureAttention & feeds24%Sep

88Bhuller, Dahl, Løken and Mogstad used random judge assignment and found that rehabilitation-focused prison cut reoffending by 29 percentage points over five years.A Public "Accept-the-Offer" Work Platform: Does It Exist, and Is It Crazy?FigureAttention & feeds29 percentage pointsSep

89After release, New York's Center for Employment Opportunities, a transitional work-crew program, cut recidivism 16–22% in an MDRC randomized trial.A Public "Accept-the-Offer" Work Platform: Does It Exist, and Is It Crazy?FigureAttention & feeds16–22%Sep

90The WHO/WMH surveys (Kazdin et al., 2024, Psychological Medicine; 13 countries) found that "the main patient-reported reason for discontinuation was feeling better (46.6%)" among people stopping antidepressants.When "Healed" Is the Treatment Working: The Stopping Mechanism in Maintenance-Dependent ConditionsFigureAttribution & credit46.6%Sep

91A whey study at 18% protein found "maximum turbidity and aggregate sizes occurred at the isoelectric point (pI 5.2) of whey proteins."Instant-Dissolving Whey for Hot Coffee: Where the Science and Manufacturing Stand (September 2026)FigureAttribution & credit18%Sep

92Hydrolysates generally turn bitter once more than about 8% of peptide bonds are broken.Instant-Dissolving Whey for Hot Coffee: Where the Science and Manufacturing Stand (September 2026)FigureAttribution & credit8%Sep

93Beshears, Lee, Milkman, Mislavsky & Wisdom (Management Science 2021, 67(7):4139–4171; N = 2,508 Google employees in buddy-pairs) paid people to exercise either at a fixed daily two-hour window (routine) or any time (flexible).Narrow the Goal or Broaden the Substitutes? The Neurobiology and Behavioral Science of Intention Specificity, Goal Substitution, and ADHD Exercise AdherenceFigureADHD & attentionN = 2,508Sep

94Its central weakness is administrative: verifying participation for an entire population is costly, and Atkinson estimated only ~1% would fail to qualify.Participation Income, Earned-Income Supplements, and Work-Sharing: A Policy Framework for CanadaFigurePrices & markets1%Sep

95The Canada Workers Benefit is a refundable tax credit that phases in at 27% of earnings above $3,000, reaches a 2025 maximum of $1,633 (singles) / $2,813 (families), then phases out at 15% above $26,855 (singles) / $30,639 (families).Participation Income, Earned-Income Supplements, and Work-Sharing: A Policy Framework for CanadaFigurePrices & markets27%Sep

96Managed or network sellers are the merchant of record and take a large cut: Paved Marketplace takes 30% from publishers, EthicalAds keeps 30%, and BuySellAds and Carbon are now largely managed services.Ancaster Self-Serve Buy Side: Teardown, Money Flow, Legal Guardrails and a 30/90-Day SpecFigureAttribution & credit30%Sep

97Passionfroot charges 5% on organic deals (paid by the brand), 15% on network deals and a 2% brand fee, and has put a paid advertiser tier on top.Ancaster Self-Serve Buy Side: Teardown, Money Flow, Legal Guardrails and a 30/90-Day SpecFigureAttribution & credit5%Sep

98Quad/Harris (April 2026): 39% of Americans trust AI agents with everyday purchases, and 75% would lose trust in AI shopping if results were sponsored.Ancaster, Pass Six: The Carried Recommendation, Pressure-TestedFigureAttribution & credit39%Sep

99Croud (August 2026): 69% are open to AI purchases without approving each transaction.Ancaster, Pass Six: The Carried Recommendation, Pressure-TestedFigureAttribution & credit69%Sep

100It passed 50M users in May 2024 (TechCrunch, May 22, 2024, which also cited Linktree's estimate that creators drive "upwards of $6 billion in annual [GMV]" through their Linktrees) and reported 70M+ by April 2025.Ancaster, Fourth Pass: Pressure-Testing "The Link Is the Ad" and Choosing One DirectionFigureAttribution & credit$6 billionSep