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This is because we do not make objects to entice responses of strong affinity, like, “This is what I really want” or, “I must have this.” MUJI’s goal is to give customers a rational satisfaction, expressed not with, “This is what I really want” but with “This will do.” “This is what I really want” expresses both faint egoism and discord, while “Thi

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Lex Fridman: What are you studying now? Are you studying videos?

MrBeast:

Recently, not as much. To get to the videos I want, I have to build this business and scale up and hire. My teenage years were spent studying virality and content creation. Now I’m studying how to build a content company so I can actually produce the crazy ideas I want to pr

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Signaling does not only explain luxury purchases but also consumption of all sorts of other goods: “Green products” are more about signaling a prosocial attitude than actually helping the environment. Other consumption signals include loyalty to a specific subculture (e.g. band t-shirts), athleticism & health consciousness (athleisure clothing) or ... See more

Web2: create log in & password for each site Web3: create 1 wallet for any site. Also 1 click checkout :)

Google maps only provide route options for speed and price, why not ease and beauty?

Armed with a $15.3 million Series A financing by Andreessen Horowitz and plenty of pre-financing traction, Substack has the potential to leverage one of two opportunities. The likely path forward is an organic approach to local media entreprenuers scaling their own region-based media operations, likely competing with other entrepreneur-journalists ... See more

One way to think about these technology platforms is to think of any complex network as having four fundamental components:-Nodes (the objects in the graph, e.g., people, things)-Data/content (the thing being shared between the nodes, e.g., tweet)-Edges with rules (e.g., bidirectional “friend”, single-directional “follow”)-Jumping functions, specif... See more