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Why is streaming less profitable? Starting with economic theory, unbundling digital information goods inherently reduces profits and streaming is unbundling TV.

A collection is a narrative that drives items’ desirability beyond their commercial value. Symbolic value of items in a collection is amplified through their associations with stories, histories, brands and personalities. A pair of Air Jordans that belong to Kanye’s collection are more valuable than the same pair sold by an anonymous seller on... See more

We have become conditioned to accept that viciously tearing down complete strangers online is normal and admirable, and that it is right and proper for a bad tweet from decades ago to ruin someone’s life. A new vocabulary – “doom-scrolling!” “hate-reading!” – is now necessary to capture how dysfunctional online activity has become.

Community can serve one of three purposes:

Starbucks began as a coffee roaster, but today it’s just as much of a financial services company.

...the strategy would be best focused on vertical opportunities in companies that are either:

The insatiable goals to acquire more, succeed conspicuously, and be as attractive as possible lead us to objectify one another, and even ourselves. When people see themselves as little more than their attractive bodies, jobs, or bank accounts, it brings great suffering…You become a heartless taskmaster to yourself, seeing yourself as nothing more

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