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The future was always going to be omnichannel. Pundits have been prematurely predicting this for many years, but it is finally happening. There is a strange belief in certain circles that the future will be e-commerce only and that brick and mortar stores have no value.
Gavin Baker • Why category leading brick and mortar retailers are likely the biggest long term Covid…
Learning no longer lives on an individual platform. Rather, learning happens everywhere. We’re entering a new age of “Embedded Education”.
Tina He • [FKPXLS] SPECIAL VOLUME: Embedded Education
To be a platform rather than just a tool, Substack needs to answer the following question: as another new creator joins the Substack, how does it become better for all the other creators as well?
Brian Balfour • Substack's Core Growth Loop — Brian Balfour
Our individual comfort about whether we are left alone is no longer the only, or even the most salient part of the story, and we need to think about privacy as a public good and a collective value.
Jenny (Phire) Zhang • left alone, together
“The most important outcome of the pandemic wasn’t that it taught you how to use Zoom, but rather that it forced everybody else to use Zoom,” Autor told me. "We all leapfrogged over the coordination problem at the exact same time.”
Derek Thompson • Superstar Cities Are in Trouble
If Roam continues to succeed at empowering the individual user, becoming the platform for shared public thoughts, and organizing all of that information into a shared index of knowledge, then you start to see Roam transition from a tool to a utility, sort of like the internet.
Kyle Harrison • Building the Global Knowledge Graph: Dreaming the Dream for Roam Research
The clothing basics site Organics Basics is experimenting with a Low Impact Website. It doesn't load unnecessary images, limits light emitted by the screen, minimizes power consumption, etc.
Startup idea: service that enables this concept. h/t @purrmin
https://t.co/fwhZWlsDIp
Tommy Leeptwitter.comOf course it would be foolish to believe that you can boil down all this down to just money. There are many other implications on human welfare, and they will be explored as well. So really, the formula for the IoJ is: