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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Total consumer debt in
America is nearly $2.4 trillion. Out of that, $872 billion is
revolving debt, which is essentially credit card debt.
America is nearly $2.4 trillion. Out of that, $872 billion is
revolving debt, which is essentially credit card debt.
- EXAMINING THE BILLING, MARKETING, AND DISCLOSURE PRACTICES OF THE CREDIT CARD INDUSTRY, AND THEIR IMPACT ON CONSUMERS
When measured over 20 years, methane has a GWP of around 80, but over 100 years it drops to about 30. Its GWP-500 is estimated to be below 10, with most of the damage having occurred in the early years. As the methane issue ramped up, many in the media ditched the convention of reporting GWP-100 values, claiming instead that methane is “80 times... See more
the merger of these two companies speaks to the predicament of American fashion, which is not focused on managing brands so much as it is about managing businesses
Coach & Kors’ Marriage of Convenience
Tapestry and Capri
Tapestry and Capri companies don’t have the infrastructure to pull off that vaunted upmarket leap. They are, after all, basically holding companies that deal in fashion products
Coach & Kors’ Marriage of Convenience
what does this infrastructure look like?
— institutionalized creativity
— budgets willing to be wielded for brand building purposes
— time to see through the transformation
That was seen in March when violence erupted across India during Ram Navami, which marks the birth of Ram. Over 20 people were injured in different parts after groups of Hindus marched through Muslim neighbourhoods waving saffron flags and swords as they danced and shouted along to anti-Muslim songs blasting from loudspeakers.
One of the songs with... See more
One of the songs with... See more
Pooja Chaudhuri • YouTube is Autogenerating Videos for Songs Advocating the Expulsion of Muslims from India - bellingcat
Arnault has never acquired a business with back-office synergies on his mind
Coach & Kors’ Marriage of Convenience
this makes me want to cry tears of joy holy shit
The problem, Ms. Velez has learned, is that recognition — the buzz around awards, reviews and celebrity endorsements — doesn’t always yield tangible returns. If anything, she said, it contributes to the idea that things are going well when they are not.
Jessica Testa • Should Making It in Fashion Be This Hard?
images are still powerful if they are used to tell a story. It’s not that one image on Instagram blows me away, but rather the entire grid, or the persona. How much a person actually keeps up the world building with a 360 immersive narrative.
Claire Koron Elat • The New American Dream Is Sponsored by Meta: ANA VIKTORIA DZINIC
I should mention one sort of initial tactic that usually doesn't work: the Big Launch. I occasionally meet founders who seem to believe startups are projectiles rather than powered aircraft, and that they'll make it big if and only if they're launched with sufficient initial velocity. They want to launch simultaneously in 8 different publications,... See more