Andrew Reeves
@reevesy
Andrew Reeves
“The fossil fuel companies and their enablers entice addiction to their products. They sell cars and oil as sex and freedom; plastics as modernity and convenience; methane, which increases the risk of asthma in children on par with passive smoking, as ‘natural’ gas. We could have had electric vehicles decades ago if the automobile and oil industrie
... See moreHost: And of course, the luxury sector spans over so many different products. But what do you think the definition of luxury is?
Bernard Arnault: First of all, I don't like very much the word luxury, because you have something attached to it, which means show off, which mean something of non significance or something, something that is useless. And ... See more
Bernard Arnault: First of all, I don't like very much the word luxury, because you have something attached to it, which means show off, which mean something of non significance or something, something that is useless. And ... See more
KG • Letter #100: Bernard Arnault (2016)
Throughout the history of human civilization, luxury was premised on being expensive, meaning it resulted from investing an unreasonable amount of work, material or other scarce resources into the making of a thing.
But today’s rich [...] wear $500 cotton t-shirts with inscrutable references and visual motifs pulled from a smörgås-moodboard that mak
... See morewe’ve turned everything in life into a giant popularity contest–everything you say, everything you experience, everything you see, and even everything you feel–is a product of a giant worldwide counter of likes and follows. It’s a planet-wide exercise in objective convergence, a giant narcissism amplifier that cynically assumes that competing for m... See more
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Curation is a form of positional scarcity that we get whenever there’s an abundance of choice of something, and the average consumer needs help finding what they’d specifically like
Alex Danco • Positional Scarcity
Scarcity makes the product appealing and curation sets it apart
Obsessions: My Virtual Soulmate
Apparently, a great way to make friends is to tell a funny story about something that happened to you -but be sure to exaggerate. Exaggeration fosters closeness. People love to know that you’re more invested in telling them a good story than you are in accurate reporting.
What happens when the world suddenly reconfigures itself around a very different kind of relationship? The last 20 years of social innovation has leaned into weak ties: distant social relationships that allowed us to trust and extract value on platforms like Yelp, LinkedIn and Facebook. But the next 20 years are already shaping up to look very diff... See more
to be successful, you have to have the combination between modernity and timelessness.