Danielle Vermeer
@daniellevermeer
Co-Founder & CEO of Teleport. Writer of Goodwill Hunting, a newsletter hunting the best pre-loved fashion finds, insights, and jobs. 11+ years of buying no new clothes.
Danielle Vermeer
Not all attention and views are created equal. Ryan at Perpetual wrote a newsletter on why Mr. Beast has fewer followers than PewDiePie and yet Pew makes $9M while Mr. Beast makes $100M+ a year. The difference? Attention vs Intention. From Ryan:
Attention is cheap . It’s easy to grab. Even easier to fake. The impact: revenue doesn’t scale.
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The following is a list of features and technology you would never build if you’ve been a teen girl:
Emma Bates • Me, My Teen Self and Instagram
Staying within a range of acceptable tolerance in your life should be the goal, so that you flourish in all dimensions, not just the professional. Taking on too much pushes us into zones of intolerance, where very little life can be sustained.
Andy Johns • How to know when to stop
Take out a piece of paper or open a doc. Write out the answer to “Who is the person I aspire to be?” (in 2 years).
Be brutally honest about it - just get as clear as you can. Income, health, appearance, marital status, etc.
No one has to see this but you. Make it count. 2/
Dr. Julie Gurnertwitter.com
One of the biggest motivators we observe is the power of subcultural capital - or what we call the “hipster incentive”. It’s an important interpretation of Bordieau’s work on the value of cultural capital in defining our position within society -- the hipster incentive is grounded in our need for status or social capital.
jad • 🥲 Bad Incentives Ruined the Internet
The system itself — which, like so many corners of the American labor market, still assumes the support of a partner that does not work full-time outside of the home. If you have that support, you will excel. If you don’t, you either have to make enough money to buy it, or you will (perhaps in slow motion, but inevitably) drown.
Anne Helen Petersen • The Expanding Job
Circular Economy and