Philipp Rimmler

Producing less, and making items less available, is a way to increase their value and justify high prices. But, as Diane Rovel, a fictional character at the top of the world’s biggest luxury conglomerate in La Maison TV show, said, “please don’t talk to me about de-growth.”

They did it, so we have to do it.

“I think there’s a misguided belief that self-development makes us better people. But if we want to be better people we have to focus on others, not ourselves. At some point, I realized this and changed tack. Rather than ask what I needed, I asked what my community needed.”

art is the curing of callousness

If someone regularly brags about their wealth, income, or success, just assume the reality is about 50% of what they say. People who are crushing it in life rarely feel the need to tell you they are crushing it.

“Mediocre V.C.s want to see that your company has traction,” Doshi told me. “The top V.C.s want you to show them you can invent the future.”

To them, the “culture industry” was a tool to both occupy our senses and influence our attitudes toward the world. Through the mass production of entertainment, the media-makers are able to dominate people’s leisure “from the time they leave the factory in the evening to the time they clock in again the next morning.” The flat, repetitive nature of... See more

“when you start getting tired of saying it, that’s when other people are just starting to hear it.”1

luxury fashion brands are re-positioning themselves as cultural movements.