J. Danielle

The Walmart Effect - The Atlantic

Where good taste is demure, bad taste is bawdy. Where good taste is minimalist, bad taste is maximalist. Where good taste whispers, bad taste screams: “Look! React! Feel!”

I find that a useful technique to know if you have an insight is what you write after "because". And a good technique for knowing if you have a strategy is what comes after "by".

"We want people to switch to our service" is not an insight nor a strategy. "People aren't switching to our service because they think we're too basic for their needs, so... See more

Every year I felt more certain that to succeed in an atomized consumer culture was to fail as a human being.

“There’s little new here beyond the names we’re giving macroeconomically induced changes in consumer behavior and the pace at which we’re casting one meme off for the next,”

The Rise of the Union Right - The Atlantic

AI entrepreneurs do not actually democratize creativity. They commodify it, optimizing for clicks, volume, and algorithmic exploitation/success rather than for cultural resonance, meaning, or effort. They’re really just more clones of the professional-managerial class (PMC) who churn out beige corporate rebrands, as opposed to legitimately... See more