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
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.
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.
7 Steps to Transformation.
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.
Reggie James • SAVE THE INTERNET
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
“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.”
Tad Friend • The Mind of Marc Andreessen | The New Yorker
“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.
But what’s hanging in the balance is the image-cultural environment of the future. One not dominated by a format monopoly.
In Search of New Software Cultures
from Reggie James
“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