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If membership enables identity, and identity builds brand then culture is eternal.
Jarrod Dicker • Breaking the Fourth Wall: The Business of Media Subculture
American culture in particular has instilled in us the bizarre notion that to ask for help amounts to an admission of failure. But some of the most powerful, successful, admired people in the world seem, to me, to have something in common: they ask constantly, creatively, compassionately, and gracefully. And to be sure: when you ask, there’s always... See more
Amanda Palmer • The Art of Asking: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help
We have a public imagination that cannot conceive of what exactly to do with children, especially smart children. We fail to properly respect them through adolescence, so we have engineered them to be useless, and so they shuffle through a decade of busywork. Partly, the length of schooling has increased simply because it could—because we no longer
... See moreSimon Sarris • School Is Not Enough
Anyone who predicts the death of cities has already met their spouse.
Clay Shirky • Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
This may be controversial, but I don’t believe there will be another billion dollar digital mono-brand IPO-ing in the next ten years.
Aubrie Pagano • To Invest or Not to Invest: The VC Question about Digital Brands
Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.
Jonathan Franzen • Freedom: A Novel
I was talking to a friend about why we decided to invite only paying believers to the Sublime private beta. My answer is that charging early for a product creates high expectations, and in aspiring to meet those expectations, we are held accountable to deliver a product you love and trust. My answer is that growing Sublime the right way is more imp... See more
sari azout • Taste, Conviction, Elon Musk
Raising children has come to look more and more like a business endeavor and less and less like an endeavor of the heart. We are overly concerned with “the bottom line,” with how our children “do” rather than with who our children “are.” We pour time, attention, and money into insuring their performance, consistently making it to their soccer game ... See more
Madeline Levine • The Price of Privilege: How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids
