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Freemium business models gate features and/or usage while allowing people to experience the basic toolset for free, forever. These products do best when they gate access to information.

If I wake up and touch my phone, I’ve already lost hours. Not because I’m browsing social media for hours, but because the mind has already been agitated, made unquiet, and the context switch back into thoughtfulness can take the whole morning. In other words, the addict part of my brain takes over and contaminates my ability to be contemplative. I... See more

For instance, interactions with the state are not streamlined for businesses with a large number of owners. Our cooperative is almost entirely owned by immigrants, people of color, and women. This fact entitles us to participate in certain programs and opens certain types of business with the state to us. In order to prove this status, however, we... See more

Top Chef judge Tom Colicchio called the illusion of restaurant prosperity “smoke and mirrors” in a recent interview with The Daily Beast, and predicted that, as a result of the underlying precariousness, only 25% of restaurants in the U.S. will survive this crisis. He himself announced on March 14 that he was closing all of his restaurants in New... See more