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This is what I call the luxury trap. It’s a fatal mistake many brands make. Defining a luxury brand by its functional aspects and high prices cannot replace the value a brand creates.

We compartmentalized the stress and ongoing trauma, flattening it into something survivable, but we nonetheless ate it for breakfast, and lunch, and dinner. We swam in that stress. We slept in it. We swallowed it in gulps. We lived through it, and we told ourselves stories of resilience, because what other choice did we have. But the body is bad at... See more

The implication of being permissionless means that everyone can confidently build their own platforms, applications and economic models on top of the Hyperstructure without the risk of deplatforming. There are no API keys required, and no fear that a platform can suddenly upend your entire project on a whim.

20. What does friendship mean to you?

There’s an opening in the market to provide abstractions on compute and storage not only suited for modern application and infrastructure environments, but that also fill the needs of today’s developer.

“One of the most important elements of Grammarly’s early success was nailing a narrow, strong PMF early. Specifically, this was ‘high-consequence writing,’ e.g. term papers, cover letters, business memos, public blog posts. We targeted them aggressively with custom creative, landing pages, and onboarding experiences.”—Yuriy Timen