Ideas I want to write about
“when you start getting tired of saying it, that’s when other people are just starting to hear it.”1
contentfolks #83: you vs. the forgetting curve
Their genius? Converting intellectual positions into market arbitrage while wielding (and often owning) digital megaphones to reshape the very reality their investments bet against.
The New Legislators of Silicon Valley - The Ideas Letter
Increasingly believe that the "good, cheap, fast —choose two" maxim is devious misinformation spread by the slow.
In my experience, "slow" and "expensive" usually go together. I was in a meeting yesterday where lopping a year off a project schedule also ended up reducing the cost substantially. Fundamentally, it takes... See more
Patrick Collisonx.com“We should not forget that maybe not everybody only wants a camel cashmere turtleneck,” Olivier Rousteing remarked. Beyond the cyclical nature of fashion, Rousteing’s observation captured a mash-up of trends that has been solidifying into a durable aesthetic.
The age of functional maximalism
Fashion
‘don’t be the best, be the only’
The [Tuesday] Media Diet with Anna Mackenzie
Remaining in the context of New York, it could look like this... The Right is fear-mongering about the dangers of everyday life in the city, while the Left doesn’t want to admit that the city has gotten progressively more dangerous. The Right doesn’t want to admit that police officers aren’t doing their job, and the left doesn’t want to admit we... See more