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Platforms like Substack have enabled the best journalists to leave their job, but it’s also put writers on a hamster wheel with a weekly publishing cadence, where they may be making less than they thought.

People do reuse tote bags, but not as often as they plan to. One survey found that consumers forget to bring the bags to the supermarket nearly half the time. To offset the initial carbon footprint of a cotton tote bag, you’d have to use it 173 times, but the typical tote is used just 15 times, so the net effect is about nine times more carbon... See more

In the earliest days, their legitimacy was largely charismatic: founders like Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos built auras around themselves as technological geniuses and philosopher kings by painting compelling visions of the future their creations would make possible. There’s a strong traditional bent to platform legitimacy as well. Platforms are... See more

VCs have become used to 70–80%+ margins in software businesses. Well, that is hard,if not impossible, to achieve in hardware companies. So many entities along the value chain ‘touch’ the product that if everyone took such high margins, products would become too expensive to be useful. But 40–50% margins are not to be scoffed at, and we need to... See more

Opportunities for skill-learning can be vastly multiplied if we open the “market”. This depends on matching the right teacher with the right student when he is highly motivated in an intelligent program, without the constraint of curriculum.

Current solutions also lack interconnectivity. Many files are divorced from context; cast into a drawer, rather than methodically fitted into a broader framework of knowledge. Knowledge trees can create pseudo-relationships between files nested within a given hierarchy, but these are not explicit, and can only describe a vertical ‘parent and child’

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