sari
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making Sublime — for you and for me.
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Today's reminder that starting a community-based business can be MASSIVE
https://t.co/CZuTIq7bXn, a private community for women that supports career and personal development JUST raised $100m at a $1.1B valuation
We love to see it.
GREG ISENBERGtwitter.com
All these people you’ve known and loved – “they suffered and struggled so much, and then life is over,” said Scorsese. “You get to the point of saying, ‘Well, what does it all mean?’ It doesn’t matter what it means. You have to live it. And if you choose not to live it, you choose not to live it; that’s up to you. But you are existing and you live... See more
Zach Baron • Martin Scorsese: “I Have to Find Out Who the Hell I Am”
With the vast amount of books and user data that Goodreads holds, it has the potential to create an algorithm so exact that it would be unstoppable, and it is hard to imagine anyone objecting to their data being used for such a purpose. Instead, it has stagnated: Amazon holds on to an effective monopoly on the discussion of new books – Goodreads is... See more
Sarah Manavis • Why Goodreads Is Bad for Books
The first thing they’ve done is make sure as many readers as possible are aware that they’re using Substack. When your login information and credit card is stored, and the sites all look pretty similar and function the same way, it reduces the friction of signing up and paying for new newsletters. This is why from the beginning it’s been so... See more
Nathan Baschez • Substack’s Ideology
Varden
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We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object, and go mad in its pursuit; that millions of people become simultaneously impressed with one delusion, and run after it, till their attention is caught by some new folly more captivating than the first
Charles Mackay • Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (Illustrated Edition)
Unlike with consumer products, a curation business’s brand can be a durable moat.
Erik Torenberg • How to Build Curation Businesses
Peoplehood
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