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I’m still not sure I know exactly what happened. Apparently, Shorter became convinced that his Nike shoes were fragile and wouldn’t hold up for the whole twenty-six miles. (Never mind that they’d performed perfectly well at the Olympic Trials.) Maybe it was nerves. Maybe it was superstition. He wanted to use what he’d always used. Runners are funny
... See morePhil Knight • Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE
my own favorite, Jonetix of Cupertino.
George Gilder • Life After Google
"I believe that in the near future that we will go from Record Labels being your majority partner, to fans becoming your minority partner "
Youtube • Why NFTs will change the Future of Music | LIVE Announcement | GaryVee x Budweiser Royalty
A more pessimistic prediction is that the current True Fan revolution will eventually go the way of the original Web 2.0 revolution, with creators increasingly ground in the gears of monetization. The Substack of today makes it easy for a writer to charge fans for a newsletter. The Substack of tomorrow might move toward a flat-fee subscription mode... See more
Cal Newport • The Rise of the Internet’s Creative Middle Class
Bruce Dunlevie remained Adam’s champion, expressing his belief in Adam’s expansive vision and comparing him to a new-age Jeff Bezos.
Reeves Wiedeman • Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork
“tycoon” came from taikun, Japanese for “warlord.”
Phil Knight • Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE
“With Notably Rare Exceptions”
crookedtimber.org
competing claims of origin that pit a native Scots genius against a faceless factory machine.
Harry Brown • Golf Ball (Object Lessons)
(and still only)