November 2020 | Archive

A Tale of Two Streets: Supreme vs Madhappy

Animator Creating Animation

Big Tech Sees Like a State

Bitcoin at 12.

Chinese Chicken Fingers and the American Dream

Clear Conquered U.S. Airports. Now It Wants to Own Your Entire Digital Identity.

Contrarian Investing 101

Death to Bullshit

Does Palantir See Too Much?

DoorDash and Societal Arbitrage

embedded finance x creator economy

Financing the American Home

From chaos, a greater understanding of resilience

From Unknown Title to Viral Game: 12 Growth Lessons From Spellbreak

Genshin Impact (2020)

Hollywood’s ‘We’re Not in Kansas Anymore’ Moment

Homebrew VC Hunter Walk Talks Twitter, TikTok, and Tech in the Time of Biden

How Allbirds Became Silicon Valley’s Favorite Sneaker

How I Made a Documentary Film with Digital Notes

How Julia Child Used First Principles Thinking

How McDonald’s turned around its fast-food empire

How Ring Lights Went Mainstream

How Ringtone Rap Influenced Modern Hip-Hop

How the strangeness of our dreams reveals their true purpose

How to take notes while reading a book

How to Tell a Great Bedtime Story

How Yeti Survived a Pandemic While Selling $300 Coolers

Hunting Knowledge with Eric Jorgenson

I Found Truth Inside Dunkin’s New Spicy Ghost Pepper Donut

I sold Baremetrics

Inside the mind of a master procrastinator

Is Nike adopting a luxury model for its distribution?

Jerry Seinfeld: Comedian, Innovator, Micromanager

Konstantinos Dimopoulos's Blog - Urban Design and the Creation of Videogame Cities

Lil Nas X delivers one of the most viewed in-game concerts

Looking Back, Looking Ahead II

Make your Product Onboarding Better by Trying It Yourself

Mason Saltarrelli: The Gallery Artist Making Direct-to-Consumer Art

Meet the ‘potheads’ who are hypebeasts for pottery — not pot

Meet the Excel warriors saving the world from spreadsheet disaster

Oliver Burkeman's last column: the eight secrets to a (fairly) fulfilled life

Peter Boyce is a People Person

Pharmacies Inside-and-Out With John Capecelatro

Playing on Hard Mode

Progress, stagnation, and flying cars

Read Danny Meyer’s Motivating Speech on ‘the Irrelevancy of Being Right’

Six Lessons from Six Months at Shopify

Snapchat's million-dollar idea

Social Commerce Has Taken China By Storm: Why not India?

Substack got lucky, and so did Margins

The Analog City and the Digital City

The Art of Persuasion

The Beautiful Institution: The Story of Marriage in Seven Key Moments

The Building Blocks of Tech

The Business of Fame: 1920-2020

The Closing Walls Around China’s Independent Game Developers

The Data of Long-lived Institutions

The Disease of Delegitimization

The Inner Ring

The Inside Story of (EL) Estee Lauder’s Billion-Dollar Success

The Inside Stuff on the 1980s NBA Business Boom

The Internet Is Noisy

The Polymath Playbook

The Promise of Payroll APIs

The Star Pupils

The Story of a Cap Table: DoorDash

The Substackerati

The Super Mario Effect - Tricking Your Brain into Learning More | Mark Rober

The Tenuous Promise of the Substack Dream

The Unsinkable Maddie Stone, Google’s Bug-Hunting Badass

The window tax

These Young Investors Are Still Betting Big On Crypto — And Are Taking Harvard And Stanford Along For The Ride

Twitch’s Soundtrack won’t fix its copyright problems

Ty Haney Speaks Out About Outdoor Voices' Missteps--and What Comes Next

Using NBA Metrics to Scout Superstar Startups

Video Games to Relax

Video Games x Healthcare

What happened to the future?

What if Instead of Calling People Out, We Called Them In?

What in the World Is a $590 Scratch-and-Sniff T-shirt Doing in 2020?

What Is DeFi?

What's Kubernetes?

What's wrong with the media

Why childhood and old age are key to our human capacities

Why Chinese tech giants struggle to make good B2B software

Why is Roblox Allowed on the App Store?

Willie Nelson Understands

Winning in aspirational markets 👑