Diego Segura

@diegosegura

designer, writer, founder. currently obsessed with monetary theory, high finance, corporate law, regretting dropping out of high school, and sudoku. author of a 2018 book, “the dropout manifesto.”

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Thanks to a logistics overhaul executed a year earlier, Proenza Schouler’s spring collection was by March already in stores and paid for. By luck, their collaboration with Birkenstock — for which they topstitched the German sandal-makers’ popular Arizona and Milano styles, glazing them in what have become signature colours like cobalt blue and... See more

The Nine Lives of Proenza Schouler

fashion

Yglesias’s newsletter, “Slow Boring,” has a readership that includes more than six thousand paid subscribers, and he is making twenty-seven thousand dollars a month

Anna Wiene • Is Substack the Media Future We Want?

“Getting a yield of less than 1% to lock up your money for up to 100 years might not sound like a great deal,” Bloomberg led its story about the com- ing of the Austria 0.85s, in June 2020, “yet the rush for safety means Austria’s century bonds [i.e., the 2.1s] have nearly doubled in value so far. That’s why the nation’s sale of new debt that... See more

High Finance

Any kind of accomplishment, or output of creativity, or this amazing thing that you’ve done or been able to reach—it’s hard to take credit for it. It’s more that you just tapped into something that’s already there. You’re just allowing something through, like a connection to whatever channel of creativity you’re tuning into. So, you’re just a... See more

THOM BETTRIDGE • Matthew M. Williams' Modern Timepiece

Years ago, I was a modeling agent, and I thought, my gosh, brands would actually get a lot further if they used a celebrity versus a model because of the amount of impressions that a celebrity would garner . I left the agency, opened up my own company, and here I am 30 years later.

The Tao of Shemarya

fashion and media

this is a very brilliant, situation-specific “business transformation” / idea that lead to a very successful move for him there are a million of these waiting to be discovered or already have been discovered by people with ideas but lacking the capital, time, or empowerment to go pursue them within organizations i.e., the modeling agency he worked for itself

"There is a tremendous squeeze these days," said Arnold Kaufman, editor of Standard & Poor's Outlook newsletter, which tracks dividend trends. "Profits are no longer high enough to pay for dividends at many companies."

Steve Lohr • Companies Cut Stock Dividends As Profits Drop (Published 1991)

1991!

Forerunner Ventures’ Kirsten Green , Into the Gloss co-founder Nick Axelrod (now at UTA Ventures), or Emily’s former assistant, Morgan Von Steen

After the Gloss: What’s Next for Emily Weiss