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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HANS ULRICH OBRIST buys a book everyday. It is a ritual he started about 20 years ago. He buys the books at different places, wherever he happens to be. But he especially likes to perform this daily Tarkovskian ritual at a place he refers to as “paradise”: the Walther König bookstore.
Hans Ulrich Obrist • WALTHER KÖNIG, Cologne
As stated in Section 340 of the Banking Law, “No person or other entity shall engage in the business of making loans in the principal amount of twenty-five thousand dollars or less for any loan to an individual for personal, family, household, or investment purposes and in a principal amount of fifty thousand dollars or less for business and... See more
Licensed Lenders: Information and Resources
On a chilly morning in downtown Los Angeles, a week after my visit, I put on one of the hoodies Playboy gave me. As I was standing in line for a coffee, a young skateboarder complimented it. After thanking him, I couldn’t help but ask, “What does the Playboy bunny stand for, in your opinion?”
He paused for a while.
“Uhh,
I dunno.
Boobs?”
He paused for a while.
“Uhh,
I dunno.
Boobs?”
Cassidy George • The Play-Doh Bunny: A History of Playboy
we overthink our brand strategy to be remembered as one (or two!) things.
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
the famous line in Hemingway ’s The Sun Also Rises , “How did you go bankrupt? Two ways. Gradually and then suddenly.”
Confessions of a Former SVB Executive
They sort of combined Clinique and Supreme. The Clinique side was that it was this easy, relatively affordable, but still aspirational beauty system that could feel like it was meant for a [younger] generation. The products were effective if not insanely innovative. And the packaging and aesthetics around it felt completely of-the-moment and cool.
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Amy Odell • Inside the Rise of Emily Weiss's Glossier
Chubb specializes in XoL (excess of loss) trade credit insurance, which means that the insured company agrees in the policy to take a significant loss before “coverage” kicks in.
This is different than ground-up insurers like Atradius, Allianz, and Coface, who will insure entire losses (also known as “ground-up”.)
Lemonade had set a world record by paying one New Yorker’s claim for his stolen Canada Goose parka in three seconds—the time it took Lemonade’s claims bot to run 18 antifraud algorithms and send bank instructions to deposit $729 in the man’s account.
Jeff Kauflin • First, Fire All The Brokers: How Lemonade, A Millennial-Loved Fintech Unicorn, Is Disrupting The Insurance Business
For them, LVT might be an efficient replacement for the property tax but that’s about it. Georgism as an ideology has always gone beyond this.