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For a while, the DTC playbook was golden: Start with a commodity product, something like dish soap or underpants. Give it a modern design and wrap it in minimalist packaging. Include a pastel background in the impeccably staged product photos, which splash across a Shopify-powered e-commerce site flanked by sans-serif fonts, punchy copy and a... See more
Hal Koss • The DTC Party’s Over. What Happens Next?
We are confused, or maybe divided is a better word, as to whether they are national champions in competition over the spaces that will define the rest of the 21st century or whether they are villains that are threatening consumers’ privacy, rational dialogue and civility, and our public culture
Jessica Lessin • Larry Summers on Trump’s ‘Tragic Precedent,’ TikTok and Regulation
What do people get wrong about creativity? What’s a misconception?
That it’s just fun work. That it’s all fun and that it’s all a party. But it’s not that at all. It’s a real life of dedication. If you do it seriously, it’s a very dedicated life, and it’s unlike other jobs. There are some jobs where you’re done with your day’s work, and then you
... See moreEric Skelton • Creativity, According to Rick Rubin
Every time you ask the AI to make a picture, it doesn’t really remember or know anything else it’s ever made. It has no will, it has no goals, it has no intention, no storytelling ability. All the ego and will and stories — that’s us. It’s just like an engine. An engine has nowhere to go, but people have places to go. It’s kind of like a hive mind... See more
The Verge • “An engine for the imagination”: an interview with David Holz, CEO of AI image generator Midjourney
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Turns out research, development, manufacturing, and distribution of physical products is capital intensive, and that alone has kept a lot of early stage capital away from investing in such ideas. A decade or so ago, biotech early stage investors innovated by blending Series As and Bs into one bigger financing round to enable biotech startups to... See more
Bilal Zuberi • How To Build If…It’s Time To Build?
I saw that to do exceptionally well you have to push your limits and that, if you push your limits, you will crash and it will hurt a lot. You will think you have failed—but that won’t be true unless you give up.
Ray Dalio • Principles: Life and Work
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