Regina Casaleggio

Elan: I often think one of the hardest things about positioning a startup is that in the early days when vision is often so distant from the reality of what you offer. How do you play with that tension and work towards that vision?

Sari: Yeah, honestly, this has been my biggest challenge because we initially started describing Sublime as a ‘more... See more

In Capitalist Realism , Mark Fisher, following along with Zizek, emphasizes that capitalism relies on this “overvaluation of belief”4 in order to keep populations complicit within its structure — it bets that even if we believe it is bad, we won’t take action to change it because belief itself goes far enough. Belief is a comfortable and safe way... See more

“My deepest insecurity is that I have these intuitions about things that I cannot explain to anyone,” Kushner told Rubin as they sat in his garden overlooking the ocean. “Sometimes I see or experience something and it makes sense to me, I fall in love, but I cannot explain why. Like when Thrive invested in Instagram or Spotify or OpenAI. I could... See more

lifestyles and brands together formed decentralized pseudo-communities of practice, where the product at stake was an idealized consumer type, metaphorically represented by a starter pack meme.

Like many writers before me, I tend to lean on vague hand-waving when the need to define taste, or rather, good taste, arises. A common trope is to use the phrase US Supreme Court justice Stewart famously gave to describe obscenity, a similarly hard-to-describe bedfellow of taste, in 1964: “I know it when I see it.” In design, good taste can be... See more