January 2021 | Archive

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$2 Million for T-Shirts? How Supreme and Nike Cracked the Auction Market

50 Ideas That Changed My Life - David Perell

100 Tips For A Better Life – ideopunk

2020 letter | Dan Wang

2021 Predictions #1 Puzzle Games Becomes the Top Grossing Genre on Mobile

2021 Predictions #2 Will the Hypercasual Party Ever Stop???

2021 Predictions #3 Top Mobile RPGs Will Go Cross Platform

2021 Predictions #4 Contenders Throwdown for Supercell's Mid-Core Crown

2021 Predictions #5 Sports Games Race into a Billion Dollar Club

A beginner's guide to NFTs

A Personal Digital Reset

A Super Fast Overview and History of Tech VC

Before Honour of Kings became the world’s most popular game, it was a desperate experiment

Being an Amazon Seller in 2020; Year in Review

Birkin Demand: A Sage & Stylish Investment

Climbing the wrong hill

Cole Bennett is This Generation's Rick Rubin

Creative burnout: when the creativity tap runs dry

Creator Hierarchy of Needs

Crowdfund: $ESSAY

David Rockefeller’s Rolodex Was the Stuff of Legend. Here’s a First Peek.

Dirt: Streaming culture is never finished

Disney Plus’ new Pixar Popcorn shorts changed how the animation studio works

Don't Kill Time

Epic Games Store 2020 Year in Review

Essay: The meme economy

Everything is content now

Game. Stop.

GameStonk Rocket Rocket Rocket

HODINKEE founder Ben Clymer on how to build a $100 million ecommerce and media empire

Homesteading Mental Models

How Amazon's Super-Complex Shipping System Works

How Chaotic Redditors Made GameStop Stock Skyrocket (and Made Short Sellers Cry)

How hard should I push myself?

How Hip-Hop Helped Cash App Grow Faster - Trapital

How Mac Miller Created a Musical Circle

How More TikTok Stars Can Succeed in the Music Industry

How Narvar succeeds in silence

How Playrix' Township Became a Billion Dollar Game

How Spotify beat Apple at their own game

How to Beat the Casino, and How They'll Stop You

How to Trick People Into Saving Money

Hyperleveraged companies

I Pressed ⌘B. You Wouldn't Believe What Happened Next - Marcin Wichary, Figma

Ideas That Changed My Life

Infinite Content & the end of niche

Investment XYZ: Cuban's Collar -- Anatomy of a Famous Trade

Is Substack the Media Future We Want?

Is the Supreme Logo Really Worth $2.1 Billion?

Joke Capital

Junk Cabin: Secretly building my wife a COVID office

Leading Through Anxiety

Marie-Louise Khondji Talks Launching Le Cinéma Club Streaming Platform

Markets and Morals

memo 23: everyone wants equity

Michelin restaurants and fabulous wines: Inside the secret team dinners that have built the Spurs' dynasty

Miyamoto on World 1-1: How Nintendo made Mario's most iconic level

Mmmmm. Yeah. Exactly. Right right right

Networking Advice on How to Become Insanely Well-Connected

No Meetings, No Deadlines, No Full-Time Employees

Palantir’s God’s-Eye View of Afghanistan

Peter Thiel's Investing Secrets

Predictions for gaming in 2021

Radiohead's Masterpiece in Orchestration - YouTube

Reanimating Pixar: How Pete Docter Steered the Studio Out of Scandal

Richard Feynman Magnets

Running a Successful Membership / Subscription Program

Russell Wilson's late pass call gives WR David Moore $100,000 bonus

She would be 80 today

Shopify, SPACs and Status: My Interview with Jim O'Shaughnessy (Part One)

Should You Donate to Wikipedia?

So You Want to Open a Hotel? Now?

Still Alive

Streaming culture is never finished

Suck It, Wall Street

Supercell’s challenge

Superweb: A New Internet

The Anatomy of Metroid: I. Welcome to Zebes

The Barry Diller Playbook

The battle inside Signal

The Designers Bringing Fun Back to Furniture

The Economics of VCs Recycling Management Fees

The Evolution of Cloud

The first phygital coup

The Founders of Harry's Got a $1.37 Billion Offer to Sell. But the FTC Wasn't Sold

The Game Never Stops

The Inside Story of How the Lowly PDF Played the Longest Game in Tech

The Internet Country

The Liquid Self

The Man Behind Pixar’s Deepest Explorations

The Man Who Turned Credit-Card Points Into an Empire

The most we can say about earnings of Substack's top writers

The Music Theory of Tik Tok Sea Shanties

The Myth of The Infrastructure Phase

The NBA’s Best Young Stars Loved the Same Player. He Hated the NBA.

The new rails for voice

The Perks of Niche Fame

The power of saying no

The Profile Dossier: Charlie Munger, the Master of Mental Models

The Road Not Taken: Stripe, Ant, PayTM & Defi

The Story of a Cap Table: Affirm

The Unbeatable Ed Hyman

The Unbundling Of Indexes and Markets

The Untold Story Of Watchmaking's Most Iconic Advertising Campaign: The 'Generations' Campaign Of Patek Philippe

Their Venture Fund Was ‘A Sign Of A Bubble.’ Then They Turned $1.9 Million In DoorDash Into $440 Million

These Gas-Station Entrepreneurs Favored Food Over Fuel and Got Rich

Venture Capital Scout Programs: FAQs

WallStreetBets Founder Reckons With Legacy Amid Stock-Market Frenzy

Warren Buffett Explains the Washington Post Investment

Watch Bill Gates Give Brilliant 30-Second Answers To Common Job Interview Questions

What 5 billion-dollar games tell us about mobile in 2020

What does Plaid do?

What is Amazon?

What's DevOps?

Who Will Control the Software That Powers the Internet?

Why Content is King

Why Markets Boomed in a Year of Human Misery

Why Nike is Winning

Why Success Won't Make You Happy

Why the Ultimate Luxury in Fashion Is a Human Connection

Will Self: How Should We Read?

Windows of Opportunity: A Fleeting Chance at the Impossible

You'll Figure It Out