Lisa Grimm

a suspicion that satisfactory nourishment is at once the most private, selfish of endeavors and the most communal, collective of aims.

What started as a trickle of evidence has become a deluge of research over the past couple of decades showing that emotions and food are inextricably entwined. Knowing the science empowers us to appreciate and use food's massive effect on how we feel emotionally.

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.

For we food writers who preach that there’s a food angle to every story, science proves that food truly touches everything ...

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

While some innovations naturally fit on the blockchain, others, though appealing, don't align with the practical needs and preferences of most users.

Although at one point, we all believed everything needed to be onchain.

Reality is that most people don't care about that. Values like trustlessness, transparency, censorship resistance, and self... See more

Amazon is a two sided marketplace, made up of:

1. Buyers


2. Sellers

“Yeah, no sh*t” – you, probably.

What you might not know is that over 60% of the stuff sold on the platform doesn’t actually come from Amazon, but independent sellers. ️

But it wasn’t always like this...

• Between 1994 and 2000, everything on the site was sold by Amazon


• In that time

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‘From my side of the [advertising/editorial] wall, we know restaurant margins aren’t great.

Trickle-down economics shifts money around within a roughly fixed pie. People in tech want to grow the pie using the only pie-growing mechanism that’s ever worked . And they’re not even asking for lower taxes, or any particular special treatment. They’re just asking not to be blocked .