Danielle Vermeer

Key inputs: 1. Acquisition: how to acquire users.2. Activation: how to get users to their 'Aha’ moment as quickly as possible3. Engagement: how to ensure users experience the core product value as often as possible4. Virality: how to get people to get more people onto the platform

The United Nations Environmental Programme found that not only is the dyeing process for fabrics the second largest source of water pollution, but that the fashion industry alone is producing 20% of the world's wastewater.

✍️ updated weekly review: · in what ways am I lying to myself? · in what ways do I feel free/not free? · am I getting closer to freedom? · what are the things I say I value but don't act as if I value?

Per the Clean Clothes Campaign, only about 2 percent of the world’s 60 million garment workers earn a living wage.

"Grind culture thrives on us remaining in our heads, unable to allow the technology of our divine bodies to soar and develop. There is massive knowledge and wisdom lying dormant in our exhausted and weary bodies and hearts."

It’s not that people don’t want to work. It’s that their jobs feel, for whatever reason, unsustainable: unsustainable for their mental and physical health, but also unsustainable for their family, and their longterm survival. Many people actually really like the work that they do, if they were, indeed, allocating the bulk of their time to doing... See more

 This paper, for instance, found three common “inner benefits” shoppers experience when buying counterfeit luxury goods: “First, being efficient by optimizing their resources; second, having fun by experiencing adventure, enjoyment, and risk; and third, fooling others expecting not to be caught.” But, the authors add, “most important, through the... See more