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“I love ideas. I’m desperate; I have this yearning, hunger, and thirst for new ideas —new ways of looking at the world. But until I started writing, I wasn’t able to meet people who I could share that with.” – David Perell

Be an idea archivist: Instead of always searching for new ideas, realize there’s a lot of virtue to going back in time and looking at the ideas that have been forgotten

What’s most often discussed are individuals who leave a media company to go and build a brand of their own. Their background is usually as a writer, designer, editor and they carry their individual reputation from a known publication or Twitter to their new independent business.

The mass market is dead, replaced by the mass of niches.

For one, this idea of a multi-store or multi-brand shopping aggregator app has never taken off in the US market, and that’s not for a lack of trying. The well-funded startup Spring was perhaps the best example — its big thing was a “universal shopping cart” to make it easier to shop across brands — but there’s very little that’s compelling about sh... See more

There’s just one problem: Reddit’s current monetization strategy (ads!) prevents it from unlocking the actual value of its 52 million daily active users. In order for me to issue my hypothetical “buy” rating, Reddit would need to recognize that it cannot follow the same path to power as Facebook and Twitter as their advertising business is clearly ... See more

First, in time, it will seem barbaric that we didn’t enjoy going to work. As more of our basic needs are met automatically, we should be able to spend more time on things that we enjoy doing.