Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
In a fight between quality product and quality distribution, distribution wins.
Evan Armstrong • Some Things I Know
For many customers, better doesn’t matter when comfort, consistency, and familiarity are higher up on their value chain.
Jason Fried • It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work
It was usually cooler to seem poor than seem rich, whatever your status actually was. Indie sleaze is back, I’m told, but the PBR-swilling ‘00s hipster—however affluent underneath the blue-collar disguise—would surely recoil from the $20 espresso martinis that their present-day counterparts celebrate.
Drew Austin • The Culture of Cope
Too many new things.
Dan Mall • Design That Scales
tolerance for thin margins
Jason Kilar • Jason Kilar on Hulu and content
Tyler’s distribution strategy, application design, intellectual tastes, and influence on awardees all interplay to explain his success as a talent curator.
kulesa.substack.com • Tyler Cowen is the best curator of talent in the world
human-scale
Robin Sloan • Sourdough: A Novel
The Community Builders