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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“Whenever you think you’ve seen it, there is another hidden room. Little by little, one discovers, floor by floor, more and more secret spaces – and I am sure I still have not seen all of them, filled with books upon books. It’s almost paradise. I’ve always thought of the König bookshop as a sort of paradise.”
Hans Ulrich Obrist • WALTHER KÖNIG, Cologne
Climate change is costing us dearly, and it’s only getting worse. I feel so intensely frustrated, largely because the preventative actions we could have taken were not mysterious to us: invest in renewables, transition from greenhouse gas-emitting energy generation, and put a price on carbon. We’re finally making some progress on green energy,... See more
America’s Carbon Bill Is Coming Due
that last part is a *key* argument — and it places the climate discussion back in economic terms and not in left-wing alarmist terms, which is how we can get everyone on board for Massive solutions
The transition to pink as a sexually differentiating color for girls occurred gradually, through the selective process of the marketplace, in the 1930s and 40s. In the 1920s, some groups had described pink as a masculine color, an equivalent to red, which was considered for men but lighter for boys. But stores nonetheless found that people were... See more
Pink
Rather than sell policies backed by established insurers (the way fintech competitors Hippo and Jetty do), Lemonade would become a licensed carrier itself, retaining claim liability on its own balance sheet.
Jeff Kauflin • First, Fire All The Brokers: How Lemonade, A Millennial-Loved Fintech Unicorn, Is Disrupting The Insurance Business
If you tend to blame celebrity culture run amok for our current national woes, you might find some poetry in this week’s news that Interview would fold, bankrupt, just short of its fiftieth year—mired in lawsuits over unpaid work and rampant infighting. But mostly it’s just a bummer, like hearing about an East Village punk den shutting its... See more
Michael Schulman • The Legacy of Interview Magazine and a Trip to 1988
that last part is fucking brutal
what does an even more reductive version of this look like with even more defined form, a single sheet
When we did Smartwater with Jennifer Aniston , that was the first time I saw an equity-cash combo deal, when Jennifer was a part owner of the company, which then sold to Coke [for $4.1 billion in cash].
The Tao of Shemarya
Velez’s clothes are thrashed, harsh, and even imply some kind of violence. She isn’t interested in “beauty” in the old-fashioned sense of the fashion industry, but in the chaotic multiplicities contained within femininity, even as women are portrayed exclusively as victims in the media.