Post Corona

Bezos told investors that the $4 billion in profits they were expecting would be reinvested. The investment had a theme: Covid-19. Specifically, Bezos outlined a vision for at-home Covid tests, plasma donors, PPE equipment, distancing, additional

Firms that convince consumers to enter into a monogamous relationship with them are positioned to accumulate more value over time than firms that interact with consumers transactionally.

Nobody wants to see children working eighteen hours a day in a clothing factory, but at the H&M outlet, the $10 T-shirt is an unmissable bargain. Consumer purchases are purposefully difficult to reverse engineer to bad actors.

Most people who survived Covid-19 never set foot in a doctor’s office. During the pandemic, people with psychological conditions saw their therapists and had medications adjusted without leaving home. This was enabled by changes to insurance rules, which had largely frowned on telemedicine and remote prescribing. Those changes are not likely to be

Industries become ripe for disruption when existing players fail to adopt technological change to improve quality and value, as it may threaten their core business. A decent signal an industry is vulnerable is the presence of pseudo innovation—the addition of features that add no real value to the product;

Yale professor Lauri Santos’s course “Psychology and the Good Life,”

In December 2019, I purchased 330,000 shares and wrote an open letter to Twitter’s board of directors, which can be found at profgalloway.com/twtr-enough-already.

and 20 weeks to accelerate from $1 trillion to $2 trillion (March to August 2020).

I know we are wrong about the persistence of this moment. I try to convince myself what I tell my boys: this too shall pass. This book is an attempt to look beyond our unprecedented present and predict the future by creating it, catalyzing a dialog that crafts better solutions.