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Big companies can do this because they are on a multi-decade growth strategy

Rachel Carson returned her borrowed stardust to the universe 60 years ago today, having forever changed our relationship to the living world.

Contextual advertising will become a noticeable part of the online grocery experience, too, giving brands a chance to introduce themselves and their products, and giving online grocers another revenue stream. Instacart has been building out an advertising business, and I’d be shocked if Amazon didn’t eventually introduce advertising to its grocery... See more

Venture capital should come with a warning label. In our experience, VC kills more startups than slow customer adoption, technical debt and co-founder infighting — combined. VC should be a catalyst for growing companies, but, more commonly, it’s a toxic substance that destroys them. VC often compels companies to prematurely scale, which is

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I said earlier that if we want to encourage creativity, we should just get out of its way. That was an ambiguous statement and I’d like to clear up some of the ambiguity. I will insist that creativity is not rare at all, which becomes clear once we identify the obstacles, organizational and personal, that get in its way.

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I have an undying obsession with a lack of distraction .

Whereas a firm might be able to qualify for a small business loan or working capital line, an individual would need to take a personal loan with a guarantee against their sole and family assets, even if the money would be used for their business... For example, Substack Pro gives writers an advance payment to support them branching out on their... See more

• As an author in 2023, unless you’re Donna Tartt (and even if you are Donna Tartt honestly, because even Donna Tart has a Public Persona), it impossible to sell books without selling yourself. I spent approximately 12,302 hours writing pithy Twitter posts, drafting earnest Instagram posts, creating fucking Canva graphics, and sharing Insta stories

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