right brain > left brain
In the post-Snapchat, pre-Tiktok breakout… every single consumer app company tried to reproduce the Snap magic. At the same time, every investor was benchmarking to the Snap story. This motion we generally describe as “pattern matching”. It allows capital to move without too much critique (up or down the ladder), but it’s come at the cost of a lack... See more
Mimetic Hauntology
But time and scale and riches and glories later. We now see what I generally call “meta-startups”
Their only goal is playing the game. They have no vision beyond attention and scale. They have no sense of impact or betterment. All romanticism is gone.
Their only goal is playing the game. They have no vision beyond attention and scale. They have no sense of impact or betterment. All romanticism is gone.
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I encourage the viewer to slow down, and interact, and don’t worry that we might lose them if the information they think they want isn’t immediately presented. I’ve realised the most successful sites I've made are the ones my children (5+3) enjoy playing with – and believe adults want the same fun interspersed in their day of closing cookie popups ... See more
Welcome to New Possibilities
“What does a beautiful thing tell you?” Patrick asks. “It tells you the person who made it really cared."
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We survive by naming shapes.
Lion, lightning, invoice. Commit to memory, move on.
That shorthand spares calories, keeps skin intact, and lets us cross streets without philosophizing about trucks.
The tradeoff: the moment a thing fits a label, its edges fade.
Nuance gets deleted, anomalies slip through the net, the field of possibility shrinks.
Useful fo... See more
Lion, lightning, invoice. Commit to memory, move on.
That shorthand spares calories, keeps skin intact, and lets us cross streets without philosophizing about trucks.
The tradeoff: the moment a thing fits a label, its edges fade.
Nuance gets deleted, anomalies slip through the net, the field of possibility shrinks.
Useful fo... See more
Jack Butcher
This feels infinitely related to the quote from Ian McGilchrist that Rory stated at the OK-RM table discussion event for their exhibition
although we are all interested in margin it must never be done at the expense of our philosophy margin must be obtained by
better buying emphasis on selling the right kinds of goods we want to sell operating efficiencies lower Mark markdowns greater turnover increasing the retail prices and justifying on the basis that we are still competitive could
... See moreFounders Podcast • #365 Nick Sleep's Letters: The Full Collection of the Nomad Investment Partnership Letters
Sol Price memo from 1967 with Nick Sleep commentary
Nick is seeing himself in that story right now in 2008 he's like I got I got Berkshire I got Amazon the key is
to not mess that up he the key is to not interrupt this these honest compounding machines which in itself is a decision a daily decision not to do anything and arguably more difficult than to do something because I think we are naturally wi
... See moreFounders Podcast • #365 Nick Sleep's Letters: The Full Collection of the Nomad Investment Partnership Letters
Is this me today with Lemonade, Hims and Aduro?
you cannot just focus on the outputs if you do you're going to sell you have to really understand the central engine of success you have to understand that business deeply