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The new look aims to encourage browsing, which Mr. Daunt believes improves customer satisfaction. “If you just want to buy a book, the guys in Seattle will sell you a book,” Mr. Daunt said. “The enjoyment and the social experience of that engagement with books in a bookstore? That’s our game.”

Barnes & Noble Sets Itself Free

Today, buying products online has never been easier. Convenience is at an all-time high, and consumers have more options than ever before. It seems, once again, that there is nowhere else we need to go. And yet, this is precisely the problem.

In today’s oversaturated world, we need curators to help us separate signal from noise. Gladwell told us... See more

Jesse Lee • Curators All the Way Down

Trapped: Life under Security Capitalism and How to Escape It

Setha Low

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Nigo hired acclaimed architect Masamichi Katayama of Wonderwall to design a chain of identical Busy Work Shops

W. David Marx • Ametora

Urbanism Without Effort (Island Press E-ssentials)

Charles R. Wolfe

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The first is that the group of avid shoppers have an average order of more than $50, which is just above the purchase threshold for free delivery. In addition, a large number of the regular shoppers purchase many of the same items each time, which are clearly staples for them. Finally, a large portion of the most active shoppers come to the app

Morgan Brown • Hacking Growth: How Today's Fastest-Growing Companies Drive Breakout Success

The main character in the book, The Nix, is at the mall, as a child, and is overwhelmed by the consumerism and the excess, and the way the mall tells you what you wants and then presents that thing to you. He says, “The mall’s overwhelmingness was meant to replace your imagination. Forget trying to dream your desires; the mall has already dreamed... See more

What Netflix and Spotify both did was dress up this obviously better consumer experience with an interface and a proposition that was (1) legal and (2) worth paying for in big chunks. And we all did.

Sacha Meyers • Bitcoin Is Venice: Essays on the Past and Future of Capitalism

One reason the Amazon bookstore felt so strange was that it represented a blatant intrusion of the Internet’s algorithmic logic into what we call “real life.”