Lisa Grimm

Plus, a letter can be friendly-ish, but also distant; it can command and liberate, or inspire and comfort, sometimes at once. Letters avoid the personality-less alternatives—of pure, anonymous instruction and pure, anodyne aspiration—toward which cookbooks might track, the way newsletters can provide relief from the worst tendencies of YouTube... See more

Loved this description featured in ActionDigest from investor Chris Paik re: navigating a major innovation period in tech, “each time a new shift occurs, it is analogous to the formation of an unstable radioactive isotope. The radioactivity throws off a huge amount of energy in the form of capturable enterprise value, but is subject to half-life... See more

Secrecy is sexy. I like my secret life that nobody else gets access to. There’s no judgment, no performance, no worrying about what to wear, or if the table is messy. Feeling relaxed, safe, healthy, and hot is a very inspiring headspace.

Charging directly > Ads

While platforms that depend on ads must harvest attention any way they can, platforms that depend on people’s willingness to pay have to generate trust and value.

Directly charging creates high expectations from our customers and in aspiring to meet those expectations, we are held accountable to deliver a product that you... See more

Independent internet-native creators leverage the internet’s frictionless content creation and distribution, but they’re still trapped by traditional business models like subscriptions and advertising.

A subscription model is based on the promise of the production of future gated content. A publication or creator is paid to continue production, not... See more

Since social media platforms provide easily accessible performance data, creators and brands are incentivized to only post algorithm-tested images. Knowing what “works” means fewer people are interested in taking visual risks, resulting in long-term visual homogenisation.

However, if new tools and techniques can help creators visualize, experiment, and explore the full landscape of their imagination with far less cost, perhaps we can advance new ideas at a fraction of the cost.

Your audience knows better than anyone else what you should be posting.

Code is cheap. Money now chases utility wrapped in taste, function sculpted with beautiful form, and technology framed in artistry.

But what exactly is taste? The dictionary says it’s the ability to discern what is of good quality or of a high aesthetic standard . But who sets that standard? Taste may be subjective, but within a given culture or... See more