Ideas I want to write about

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

Cotton + Kettle = Cottle

All true. But that is why leaders are paid. Not to state the obvious but to take the company to tomorrow.

What brands have realized is, you can create a “halo effect” around this that drives revenue for your brand. People line up to buy the limited edition stuff, and if they don’t get it, they still buy something less exclusive because they have already decided that your brand is cool and desirable and they want to advocate.

Reggie Casagrande • The evolution of Energy Marketing from Street Culture to Main Street

When you recognize that Hardware is part of our nature layer -> so consequentially, our culture is downstream of our hardware...

We Are Afraid To Be Better

Dense Discovery – Issue 343 / The map is not the territory

densediscovery.com

Marketing is about identifying and meeting human and social needs. One of the shortest good definitions of

marketing is “meeting needs profitably.”

Speed isn’t just important, it is the moat. The ability to build, ship, learn, and adapt faster than everyone else is the only sustainable edge right now. In a world where everything is open source, everything is demo-able, and everything is one blog post away from being copied, speed is the only thing that compounds.

Clouded Judgement 5.30.25 - Moats in the Age of AI

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