Lisa Grimm

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.

While it is true that the amount of marketing and publicity publishers invest in books varies, it is also true that authors must be active participants in their book promotion. That will not change because the most effective way for authors to reach readers is through building their audience.

The latter is, to be clear, a worthwhile goal — I’d also love to see more people at ease in their kitchens, unburdened by the fallacy that a meal has to be perfect and/or Instagram-pretty to be legitimate.

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

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

What's also interesting here is the mental model shift: People typically mint for a combination of patronage and profit—they want to support creators and the work they want to see more of in the world, and minting has traditionally been a way to do that, with provenance to prove it. However, there's also the desire to potentially profit from being... 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

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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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... See more