Dani Loftus

Words that make you smile as you repeat them out loud. Ideas that pain you to just be internalizing now.

When the institutional machine needs to deploy billions of dollars, it indexes toward ideas that Make Total Sense in the few themes in the tech zeitgeist at any given moment. And thus the ecosystem orients itself to produce a steady stream of companies that are legible and reasonable enough in a Monday partner meeting

When I’m not spending my eight-block journeys to the subway letting scream-heavy post-punk keep me from lying down in despair, I spend them compulsively adding up the retail value of every piece of clothing and jewelry I’m wearing.