GenZ’s not into Traditional Recipes

What is tradition to a generation that has been born with access to everything all at once? GenZ is known to have the lowest of brand loyalty when compared against older generations, so it’s no surprise to see them reject what feels conventional, and treat ingredients in the same way they’ve broken the fashion in... See more

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Slop, Creative Destruction, and What's Next for the Internet

Jul 16

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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 vide... See more

With startups acting as determinants of the future, lack of diversity in entrepreneurship trickles downstream into lack of diversity in the broader economy and culture.

Nikhil Krishnan, a philosopher who invokes Jaffrey as he remembers his own education in cooking and thinking, recalls finding in recipes proof of a “a fall from a condition of organic wholeness.” Cookbooks signal a derivative, disconnected world where no one absorbs skills naturally.

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

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 cust... See more

As a country, it seems that we’ve conflated the debate about how to redistribute prosperity with a debate about whether we should have prosperity at all. We can afford to have the redistribution debate only because we have the prosperity, and we have prosperity because of our combination of talent, resources, technology, and a rule of law that prot... See more

At the end of the day, marketing leaders care about data, discovering new ways to think, and being able to make connective pathways through traditional marketing funnels—and that’s what my expertise is in.