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Instead of leveraging outsiders to build their brands, a crop of forward-thinking companies have started partnering with a new set of stakeholders: their own employees.

Then there are new shopping and buying models entirely, such as Stitch Fix’s human-and-algorithm-personalized recommendations, and Rent The Runway’s subscription rental concept, to compete with.

Abundance solves problems for humans, but via commoditization, it creates others. In a state of abundance, ownership conveys no status. In a world of commoditized products, little personality is expressed through purchasing.

A core part of all wallets is a way to list transactions. Too many wallets today treat this as a list of data without much thought about what it means for the user and within the context of trust.

the internet has cut costs for creators, enabling a long tail of talent to be discovered and supported. We're all weird, and it's now quicker, cheaper, and easier to find like-minded people producing stuff we want to see.