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.
1. What problem am I solving?2. Whose problem am I solving?3. What benefits am I unlocking?4. What promise am I making?5. What emotion am I generating?6. What's the next action my reader should take?
We may balk at having “personal market caps,” but many of us already do – it is simply denominated in the currency of followers. As social media platforms have increased in importance, the blue-chip entities of this exchange – influencers – have found ways to transmute social capital into financial capital.
Resale is growing 3X faster than retail fashion. 3X—ThredUP estimates that the global secondhand apparel market will grow 3X faster than the global apparel market. 8X—in North America, it’ll grow to $82 Billion by 2025.
Let’s talk about Ambition vs. Agency
Ambition is like speed:
• speed = scalar quantity
• has only magnitude
Agency is like velocity:
• velocity = vector quantity
• has both magnitude & direction
It doesn’t... See more
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/
But bodies don’t gauge their stress response in comparison to other body’s hardships. They’re not logical, at least not in that way. My intense stress may have been less than others’, in other words, but that didn’t diminish how my body was internalizing it.
The more desirable future is outlined in Q1, with authenticated items being on sale in curated settings. Here is where Web3 comes in as a value add to physical goods as one of the most reliable authentication mechanisms that also lends scale and durability.