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The answer is this: they get the best manufacturers in the world — who already have products on Costco shelves — to make Kirkland products. Yeah, you read that right. While customers might not know it, Kirkland products are often made by the same manufacturers who make the branded products that sit next to them on the shelves.

The second takeaway is the same technology mechanisms allow you to operate all of the above. Smart contracts and tokens will be the default structure for any group-coordinated effort online, especially if the participants don’t trust each other.

Recess, a line of CBD and adaptogen infused sparkling water, “canned a feeling.” Their website explains front and center that they’re “an antidote to modern times.” This is not a drink, it’s a state of mind.

As technology advances, software will increasingly be chosen not just for how well it addresses its use case, but how it conveys its personality, similar to how we choose our clothes. We’re already beginning to see this shift. In highly individualized spheres like note-taking tools and consumer crypto, software is often chosen based on identity.... See more

Wikipedia and TikTok seem miraculous. The next wave of the Internet will enable collaboration in many more field - both synchronous and asynchronous.

A product is useless without a platform, or more precisely and accurately, a platform-less product will always be replaced by an equivalent platform-ized product.

on one hand, i think i’d strongly prefer a world where more people kept an explicit goal of improving the world and used that as one of the primary criteria for making decisions like what job to work at after college.