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“Before, not everyone wanted to use video conferencing; they felt like it was difficult to set-up or that the quality wasn’t as good as in-person meetings. But now everyone has become accustomed to it, so I expect us to shift more towards remote meetings, including on weekends.'“
Li Jin • How coronavirus is shifting consumer behavior and attitudes in China
Autonomous checkout tech is too early to make a difference for shoppers in the current pandemic, but as business owners upend their businesses to enable social distancing, there are signs the tech might be ready to make life easier during the next pandemic and the period in between.
Natasha Mascarenhas • 4 views on the future of retail and the shopping experience
Myles Danielsen: Other projects certainly offer more upside potential, but the risk-adjusted opportunity of Ethereum seems particularly compelling relative to both the rest of crypto and other asset classes globally. At present, Ethereum appears to offer the model set-up of all of investing: long-term secular tailwinds, near-term catalysts, and... See more
Mario Gabriele • What to Watch in Crypto | The Generalist
It is as if we have forgotten that a product is an object moving through space, fighting gravity, air resistance and other forces of nature. Companies, though, are only too aware of it. While we choose and buy our purchases with mere inch-wide movements of our thumbs, they are busy rearranging the physical world so that our deliveries pelt towards... See more
Samanth Subramanian • How our home delivery habit reshaped the world
These metrics never really capture the underlying human emotion or behavior they are trying to measure. To make things more interesting, they almost always create secondary behavior which makes the metric go up but in a way the system designers didn’t anticipate or want.
Sriram Krishnan • Building something no one else can measure
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Karat’s founders hope to do something similar with their card. Like Brex, Karat doesn’t require a personal guarantee. And like Brex, Karat hopes that it can turn its underserved market into a gold mine.
Arielle Pardes • A New Card Ties Your Credit to Your Social Media Stats
Davis is applying this thesis to his work with Arfa, and taking it a step further. Bodies, especially women’s bodies, are highly politicized. We’re taught to be ashamed of and erase things like body odor, menstruation, and leg hair. Hiki (and Arfa) works with customers to identify their shame and creates products that acknowledge it while not... See more
Emily Singer • DIP 027: Political bodies
True loyalty is emotional and irrational, and often at odds with our survival instinct. To achieve it, brands are better off with membership programs than the point schemes. Figuring out a good membership scenario is even more important today with a proliferation of subscription models, private chat rooms, and an ever-increasing costs of paid... See more