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In our culture, trends die young.
Grant McCracken • The Gravity Well Effect
Our mutualities are fading.
Grant McCracken • The Gravity Well Effect
If a brand moves away from its core essence and starts to pander to consumers with trendy fashion stuff, those fans will quickly abandon the brand.
Debbie Millman • Brand Thinking and Other Noble Pursuits
One of the benefits of producing consistent creative work is that it comes with a narrative network effect: The more people who know and love the story of an object, the stronger the tie to that object becomes.
Evan Armstrong • The Art of Scaling Taste
Successful platforms do not just discover what consumers want — they produce the consumers and the forms of consumer desire that they need.
ROGERS BRUBAKER • Hyperconnected Culture and Its Discontents
As consumers, our most valuable affinities will be to brands and communities, not specific products.
Joey DeBruin • (Amazon) Prime time in web3
Is the Algorithm Making Us LESS Stylish, LESS Interesting, LESS...ourselves?
Beth Bentleypatternrecognitionbytomorrowism.substack.com
André Chaperon
andrechaperon.com
The elites and intermediaries stand helpless before the flood.