Ideas I want to write about
Marketing is about identifying and meeting human and social needs. One of the shortest good definitions of
marketing is “meeting needs profitably.”
To opt out, though, is to be excluded.
Adam Aleksic • how the algorithm keeps you under control
doesn't reality always feel a bit tenuous in summer? The way the days lose structure, how they blend into one another, how time moves in funny ways.
René Magritte, Gertrude Abercrombie, and Alex Katz Feel Like Summer
In America the best image wins. The President can’t be brat, and we love a survivor. It’s that simple sometimes.
Reggie James • Political Expectations
Literature is at once the most intimate and the most articulate of the arts. It cannot impart its effect through the sense or the nerves as the other arts can; it is beautiful only through the intelligence; it is the mind speaking to the mind ... if it fails to express precisely the meaning of the author, if it does not say HIM, [sic] it says... See more
Miguel • Issue #341: How to Earn Money from Your Writing
I will treat you with dignity, perhaps even kindness, but I am in no way interested in you.
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Who does your business work for? If your only goal is profit, then it seems to serve only one group — the shareholders. But they’re only a part of the ecosystems your business belongs to.
Every company — big or small — serves six stakeholder groups:
And they’re all equally important.... See more
Every company — big or small — serves six stakeholder groups:
- Customers
- Employees
- Shareholders
- Business partners
- Society
- Regulators
And they’re all equally important.... See more
We Threw Out Our Bold Vision — and Only Then Did Growth Begin
Now the point of this myth is the fact that men at once become fascinated by any extension of themselves in any material other than themselves.
- Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media - The Gadget Lover: Narcissus as Narcosis
In Search of New Software Cultures
This is also why I hated the term "Web3". It implies that Web2 was going to be a subsection of the larger new Web3 internet we were migrating to. Which is wrong. And that's why I advocate for thinking about Crypto as an alternate timeline, or a division of the internet biological kingdom.