go long, everyone else is going short
Instead of asking people for advice and looking for the average of all the advice you get, you should probably be taking bigger, bolder bets.
If the average is failure, you don't want to implement average advice.
If the average is failure, you don't want to implement average advice.
To grow your business, you have to make big bets
Does Anyone Really Have Taste Anymore? Microtrends move faster than we can question them. Labubus, polka-dot revívals, balletcore, blokette, tomato girl summers. It’s not that we shouldn’t like them. But most people don’t even know where these aesthetics come from, or why they’re drawn to them beyond the fact that the algorithm said yes. Taste used to be personal. Now it’s predictive. Studies from LC and CIFS show most Gen Z style decisions are made without research, driven by social proof and virality. We’re not curating- just copying— and fashion’s becoming less about what resonates, more about what performs. So what is real taste in 2025? Can we reclaim it? Or is it already gone? #FashionDebate #TasteVsTrend #Labubus #MicrotrendCulture #QuietLuxury #Balletcore #TikTokFashion #DigitalTaste #AlgorithmAesthetic #Magazine #TheCitizensPoste
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don't spend any time worrying about what other investors do I spent all my time studying great companies and studying great Industries if Nick and Zach were worried about what other investors were doing at this time they wouldn't be doing what they're doing they wouldn't have been buying Amazon they wouldn't have been talking about Costco
Founders Podcast • #365 Nick Sleep's Letters: The Full Collection of the Nomad Investment Partnership Letters
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you cannot just focus on the outputs if you do you're going to sell you have to really understand the central engine of success you have to understand that business deeply