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indie New Hardware Soapbox with Reggie James, CEO of Eternal
youtu.beZoning is losing its power. New ventures are able to reach a meaningful scale before regulators (and competitors) react. The boundaries between different uses are blurring, with people lodging in apartment buildings, living in hotels, working in restaurants and retail malls, and sleeping or socializing at the office.
Dror Poleg • Dror’s Substack | Substack
Netflix and the Conservation of Attractive Profits - Stratechery by Ben Thompson
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Second, I’m reflecting on a point former Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale famously made in 1995: “There are only two ways to make money in business: bundling and unbundling.” I think we’re burnt out by the fragmentation that the D2C era brought to everything. After subscribing to tons of hyper-niche content over the years, the idea of a couple brands we... See more
Michelle Rose Joseph • No. 13 — Reclaiming Discovery From the Algorithms
I’m extremely wary of the cult of contemporary self-making, and the fact that it’s become an expected part of life in the attention economy for middle-class workers.
From the college essay – the first time many of us are required to tell a selling story of ourselves in the service of social capital – to the dating website to Twitter or Instagram,... See more
From the college essay – the first time many of us are required to tell a selling story of ourselves in the service of social capital – to the dating website to Twitter or Instagram,... See more
Tara Isabella Burton • Self-Made ft. Tara Isabella Burton: The History & Future of Self Curation
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Craig Mod • Post-Artifact Books and Publishing
Tech company cafeterias remain economically viable as a recruitment strategy despite cost-cutting concerns in post-ZIRP era
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And that is not a reality-entangled point of view at all. The economics are just so absurdly attractive.
Every company has a number and few companies disclose it, but finger to the wind, it's probably like $15 per beneficiary per day of what it costs to provide those services.
And $15 next to the total compensation of an engineer, even at a place
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