Lillian Sheng

“It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.”  — Mark Twain

The grocery value chain is highly fragmented and new players operate on a variety of segments: restaurant delivery (Deliveroo), multi-product delivery (Glovo), grocery personal shopper (Instacart), and instant delivery shopping (GoPuff or Gorillas). Such actors can be both competitors and partners for traditional retailers. Faced with such... See more

How Seth makes sure to ship work that is important enough

HORIZONTAL, MULTIMODAL MEMBERSHIP DESIGN

Hypothesis 1: The "golden age" hypothesisThe "golden age" hypothesis says there are one or more "golden ages" from the past that were superior at producing innovation compared to today. Perhaps understanding and restoring what worked about those "golden ages" would lead to an explosion in creativity today.

Advertisements shouldn’t be an afterthought. Several direct-to-consumer fashion and lifestyle brands know this already — they live and die on their social media presence. However, advertisement quality matters a lot more for industries like education, software, and media than you might think. In the words of Matthew Ball: “[I]f media matters to... See more

a gift concierge allows you to input information you know about the person and spits out gift-focused personas. you have the agency to choose with a whole new layer of decision support tools for neat gifts. 

The mud consumed each man till there was nothing visible but our heads. The instructors told us we could leave the mud if only five men would quit — just five men — and we could get out of the oppressive cold. Looking around the mud flat it was apparent that some students were about to give up. It was still over eight hours till the sun came up —... See more

The trick is to find a day job that pays decently, doesn’t make you want to vomit, and leaves you with enough energy to make things in your spare time. Good day jobs aren’t necessarily easy to find, but they’re out there.