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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.

In every market, there are “non-consumers,” individuals who don’t have the time, money, skill, access, or ability to consume existing offerings. A disruptive innovation introduces an affordable product/service that targets non-consumers—thus creating entirely new consumers within an entirely new value network.

Stripe Treasury, as its website notes, is banking-as-a-service, but, critically, Stripe is not a bank

-Their 30% take rate on IAP

What’s the role of a social network in a user-centric web3 world? No longer platform-centric venues, social networks become portals into a metaverse, full of opportunity. Users own the value they create and carry the credibility they accrue. Social Investing 2.0 promotes meaningful connections that lead to platform agnostic, liquid collaboration... See more

A class of supplements bills itself as neuroenhancers or nootropics—compounds you don’t need a prescription for that promise to augment your mental functioning without side effects. A notable subset of the people interested in these brain pills—and sometimes hawking them—are on the right. It’s not hard to see how today’s pressures might make a... See more

I must admit, idling accounts for some of the most relaxing moments of my day. They’re not joyful , nor are they ultimately restful (I’m reading Twitter after all, and I’m still tired afterward, often moreso), but there’s something about the combination of knowing she’s near me, safe and happy, while putting my brain in suspension mode that hits... See more