From Airbnb to Google to Spotify, this era has come to be defined by the commodification of accessible consumer (and now, even enterprise) brands.

SCARF – Status, Certainty, Autonomy, Relatedness, Fairness

Hot take: Everyone is wrong about the Metaverse. here's my 3 part theory..

"Psychological development goes awry when children are pressured into valuing the views of others over their own.

Service marketplaces must continuously provide value in terms of either discovery, convenience or trust. In line with this, successful service marketplaces tend to be either repeated-discovery, online-first or SaaS-enabled.

Will our gateway to the metaverse be text-based (eg: through a search engine), app-based (through individual portals), or voice-based (eg: through instructing digital assistants)?

But the satisfaction of being advice-giver is short lived, as the advice I have dispensed, whether directly solicited or not, will almost certainly not be followed up on with any real action. This is a virtual guarantee, seemingly regardless of the enthusiasm, energy and attributes of the receiver in question. It just seems to be one of those thing... See more

The rise of community—a more directional aesthetic means that it won’t resonate with everyone. But those that do like it will really connect. This will create a smaller, more dedicated customer base, a community.

I decided to write about McMaster-Carr because it is so rare to see such careful thought go into an industrial web app, far removed from the commotion of silicon valley, web3, D2C, and the other typical subjects of pixel perfection.