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- Warby Parker filed for a direct listing yesterday! As someone who spends a lot of time with D2C brands, I was excited to get a closer look at one of the "OGs." Read on for an S-1 teardown + some thoughts on valuation👇
On Nonscalability: The Living World Is Not Amenable to Precision-Nested Scales
The document explores how scalability, the ability to expand without changing the framework, has shaped modern projects, economies, and knowledge, leading to a loss of transformative diversity.
reading, watching & listening to and the goal is resonance, not scale
- To build the next big search engine simply focus on people. It’s why people add “reddit” to their queries and prefer to search social — we want to see results from humans, not soulless SEO farms.
- When I have a problem, and it’s proving difficult to solve, I’ll often go on a walk about it, go talk to a friend about it, go try to solve it again. But when it’s proving intransigent, I’ll go write an essay proving why it just cannot be solved. That almost always fixes it.
- Young people report higher levels of stress than their older counterparts. Nearly 6 in 10 respondents in the 35 to 44 years of age category reported high or very high levels of stress (58%), while less than one-quarter (23%) of respondents in the 55-plus age group reported experiencing the same upper levels of stress. Source: Stress Management f... See more
fav chatGPT prompt: Based on all of our interactions, what is the question that I should be asking, but am not?
- After 1500 in a Clubhouse/Meerkat/Roadtrip any other attempt at synchronous only comms a few things break: 1. Notification overload 2. Conversations get boring b/c diverge too far from interest without the context of someone I recognize talking 3. Feels less special: 2/
Consumer Social and
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- It is impossible to get better and look good at the same time. And yet, we always want to look good. We want to be polished and respected. We want ballooning analytics and bestseller lists and the prime spot at the table. We want praise instead of critique and we’d like it now, if that’s not too much trouble. But working through is the way. Th... See more
- now this is an about page