February 2021 | Archive

A beginner's guide to NFTs

American Idle

Bitcoin for the Open-Minded Skeptic

EVE Online’s Short Squeeze And Real-World Economy Ambitions

how timeless is timeless advice?

How to Eat an Elephant, One Atomic Concept at a Time

My Collectible Ass

The Perfect Paradox of Star Brands: An Interview with Bernard Arnault of LVMH

Who Is Beeple? How Artist Mike Winkelmann Made Millions From Selling NFTs and Digital Art

Why did I leave Google or, why did I stay so long?

Why Diversification Results In Mediocrity

“User Engagement” Is Code for “Addiction”

Hiring Executives & Bad Advice

A Brief History of Match-Three Games

A psychoanalytic reading of social media and the death drive

A Step by Step Guide to NFTs for Creators

Accessible, Affordable, Acceptable: How COVID-19 Has Shaped Mental Health Care

Aesthetics Wiki: Cottagecore Was Just the Beginning

All roads lead to Rome

always bet on text

Amazon and the "profitless business model" fallacy

Apple, Its Control Over the iPhone, The Internet, And The Metaverse

Banking-as-a-service is a boon to fintech

Basic.Space Is the Invite-Only Resale Platform Naomi Osaka and Virgil Abloh Have Already Joined

Bearbrick: The New LEGO for Adults

Brian Armstrong on the Crypto Economy

Can luxury brands crack WeChat mini games in 2021?

Chess.com finds streaming success

Clubhouse’s Inevitability

Coinbase Reveals $322M in Profit For 2020 Ahead of Landmark Public Debut

Coinbase Seed Round Pitch Deck

Covid: 'Insane' success of goat Zooms nets Rossendale farm £50k

Creeping as a Service (CraaS)

DeFi + Creators = 🚀

Does Apologizing Work? An Empirical Test of the Conventional Wisdom by Richard Hanania

Don't be a generalist.

eCommerce 3.0: Defining the Next Generation of Purchasing

effort

Email from Jeff Bezos to employees

Experts Versus Elites

FaZe Clan, Fandom And The New Brand Flywheel

Finally, a private stock exchange

Foreign brands have a new fast-track into China's market: the addictive app Red

Got NFT? Crypto art for dummies

Here's what really happens to the items you return online

How a Health Food Store Became L.A.'s Hottest Hangout

How Candles Became the Lockdown's Interior Status Symbol

How do you describe TikTok?

How hard should I push myself?

How Many People Did Nuclear Energy Kill? Nuclear Death Toll

How social networks got competitive again

How Tesla’s Charging Stations Left Other Manufacturers in the Dust

How the Pandemic Exacerbated Burnout

How This Ends

How to write a cold email

I helped build ByteDance's censorship machine

Improving VC to VC Meetings

Internet Friends

Jay-Z Sells Half of Ace of Spades Champagne to LVMH

Kevin Garnett Isn’t Sure His Generation Could Play in Today’s N.B.A.

Lionel Messi, Barcelona and the Crippling Cost of Success

Making Vaccine

Marc Chagall's Ceiling for the Paris Opera

Mirror of Your Mind

My Ideal Board Meeting

My Personal Moonshot

Naomi Osaka & Cordae: The Coolest Young Couple on the Planet Right Now

New Industries Come From Crazy People

NFTs and a Thousand True Fans

NFTs make the internet ownable

One-of-a-Kinds

Online art-selling platforms like Artsy are seeing record sales

Owning the funnel

PayPal wants to be a super app

Peacetime CEO/Wartime CEO

Peloton: An oral history from 'janky broken' bikes to champagne bottle-popping

Persuading the Unpersuadable

Pivotal Figure Emerges In Moet-Vuitton Feud (1988)

Pixar in a Box: the art of storytelling

Power to the Person

Prediction Markets: Tales from the Election

Research: Why Breathing Is So Effective at Reducing Stress

Roger Federer as Religious Experience

San Francisco Giants outfielder Drew Robinson's remarkable second act

Squad Wealth

Startups and Uncertainty

Superstar Cities Are in Trouble

Supreme made a personal watercraft, a mini-fridge, and a box of Wheaties

Taste for Makers

Tesla Rival Lucid Motors Paid a Price For Its SPAC Deal

The Beach Bum Who Beat Wall Street and Made Millions on GameStop

The Beginning of the End

The Bitcoin Accounting Edition

The business of being a Youtube influencer with MKBHD

The Clubhouse App and the Rise of Oral Psychodynamics

The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet

the Fenty identity

The first Industrial Revolution from home

The Furry Lisa, CryptoArt, & The New Economy Of Digital Creativity

The Great GameStop Stock Shock

The house that Bitcoin built

The Illusions of Free-to-Play

The man behind Fortnite is making the riskiest bet of his career. The payoff could be huge

The manipulation of the American mind: Edward Bernays and the birth of public relations

The new gold rush is happening on Instagram

The next big thing in retail comes with Chinese characteristics

The Ownership Economy: Crypto & The Next Frontier of Consumer Software

The Pirate Problem

The Plan to Bring Supreme to the Masses

The Presence Shortage

The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin Billionaire Arthur Hayes

The role of the CEO: managing yourself

The SEC Wants Reddit Meme Stocks to Admit They're Dangerous

The Surprising Ascent of KAWS

The Third Party API Economy Part II: Announcing the API-First Directory

The Ultimate Time Management Guide

Three Growth Opportunities Unlocked by IDFA Depreciation

Tom Brady, the Super Bowl and the aging athlete's mind-body problem

understanding

Vikings are the new Fortnite - Dirt

Vintage Furniture Sellers of Instagram Are Exhausted

WebMD, And The Tragedy Of Legible Expertise

What I learned from Jeff Bezos after reading every Amazon shareholder letter

What I Worked On

What Is Top Shot?

What makes Tom Brady great? Former NFL QBs share opinions

What Networks Whisper

What the Hell is Going On?

What You Can't Say

WHAT YOUR DATA TEAM IS USING: THE ANALYTICS STACK

When Everyone’s a Genius (A Few Thoughts on Speculation)

Why Bitcoin Matters

Why Brands Are Putting Celebrities in the C-Suite

Why Editorial Brands Will Dominate Retail’s ‘Long Tale’

Why former Burt’s Bees execs are funding Raleigh startups

Why Games are the Solution to Remote Team Building

Why Generation Y Yuppies Are Unhappy

Why the future of work will look like a video game

Within the Context of No-Context

YouTube of the future.

Consumer Demand Snaps Back. Factories Can’t Keep Up

Bitcoin and Buying Things

Deepfake videos of Tom Cruise show the technology's threat to society is very real

Grow the Puzzle Around You