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We believe that umami has been both literally and figuratively the key commodity of the experience economy. Umami, as both a quality and effect of an experience, popped up primarily in settings that were on the verge of disintegration, and hinged on physical pilgrimages to evanescent meccas.

As most of the major media categories — music, video and video games — have existed for decades, we tend to forget that media is technology.

Rather a lot of people in tech wonder if crypto, or large parts of it, is an emperor with no clothes and don’t want to say so publicly. That’s not to say that it is, but there is a real reluctance to be publicly skeptical regardless of private sentiment.

When I have a piece of writing in mind, what I have, in fact, is a mental bucket: an attractor for and generator of thought. It’s like a thematic gravity well, a magnet for what would otherwise be a mess of iron filings. I’ll read books differently and listen differently in conversations. In particular I’ll remember everything better; everything wi

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I assume that Whoop’s business plan is to go after users that don’t require precision in their heart rate data. This could include people new to exercise, those whose activity is of low aerobic intensity (i.e. golf, yoga, etc), and those who only require a rough estimate of their output (i.e. team sports). If an average heart rate and a rough strai... See more

when all information is perfectly catalogued and perfectly analysed by perfect tools that present them perfectly to us at the perfect time in the perfect way… …we will finally see how it was actually courage we needed all along, more than information

I contend email might actually become what we thought it was: an electronic letter-writing platform.

Something being hard is different from something being wrong for you. When something is hard, you might be incredibly uncertain about the outcome, but you’re probably confident in the path, both the day-to-day process of it and the value and the joy. When it’s wrong, it’s out of whack with your basic needs.