Ideas I want to write about

“Please continue to carry out your activities with dignity, adhering to the philosophies that you hold dear.”

World class leaders and companies are never defeated. They decide to defeat themselves by chanting the following mantras:

Cannot sacrifice margin.

New competitors and markets are too niche or too unsophisticated.

Customer and clients will not accept the change.

We do not have the skills and this sounds like a different business.

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.

Too many people think the grass is greener somewhere else but grass is green where you water it, remember that.

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.

“Mediocre V.C.s want to see that your company has traction,” Doshi told me. “The top V.C.s want you to show them you can invent the future.”

“Why isn’t it an app?” This argument feels like the make change from the inside. We know that’s not how the world works, but it’s hard to see that you’re in water as a fish.

But what’s hanging in the balance is the image-cultural environment of the future. One not dominated by a format monopoly.

“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.