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Luxury domesticity describes the tangible assets that we all wish we had right now: spacious real estate, yachts, private planes, a car, rare whiskeys. But it also refers to the “socially-approved” status-signaling behaviors like cooking, re-decorating, exercising.

Forcing that kind of behavior change is big - getting someone to use telemedicine the first time is difficult, but then repeat usage probably increases once they see how convenient it is (don’t have data to back this up, just a hunch). We’ve already seen huge spikes in usage of Chinese telemedicine platforms + willingness to try more digital tools ... See more

People are willing to pay a lot of money for digital goods, and owning something online can be a powerful status symbol even if it does not correspond to anything offline.

A broken family is a family in which any member must break herself into pieces to fit in. A whole family is one in which each member can bring her full self to the table knowing that she will always be both held and free

You like to imagine yourself in control of your fate, consciously planning the course of your life as best you can. But you are largely unaware of how deeply your emotions dominate you. They make you veer toward ideas that soothe your ego. They make you look for evidence that confirms what you already want to believe. They make you see what you wan... See more