The new e-services offered by Steward include a fundraising tool for farmers to raise capital, an e-commerce tool to sell direct to consumers, and an accounting tool to keep track of books and inventory. T
Many indigenous communities operated on the principle of reciprocal gift giving. Say you were a baker who needed another pair of shoes; you wouldn’t go to the shoemaker and offer some flour for a pair of shoes. Rather, you might drop a hint to the shoemaker’s wife at some point that your current shoes were falling apart and hope she’d say “Oh you p... See more
Shein shows one way this can go - it’s built a smartphone-only fast fashion brand that appears to be bigger than H&M and Zara combined in the USA. Part of the Shein story is the pace of inventory and the use of data (it claims to add 8-10k new SKUs every single day) but the other is that it has built this business with cheap shipping and (like ... See more
Small, close, tight-knit connections are fundamental to intimacy,, and we can’t scale small groups in the sense of stretching them out to fit more people inside. To stretch out a small group and add more people to it senselessly is like trying to grow a cell by just stretching it out. The once small, intimate community will lose all the things that... See more
Americans 12 to 34 years old across several platforms has either leveled off or is waning, while 2019 research from Global Web Index suggests that the amount of time millennial and Gen Z audiences spend on many social platforms is either flat, declining, or not rising as greatly as it has in years’ past.
Instead of presuming that optimal institutional solutions can be designed easily and imposed at low cost by external authorities, I argue that "getting the institutions right" is a difficult, time-consuming, conflict-invoking process.