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    March 2021 | Archive

    ‘Can’t Get More Crazy’: Series A Valuations Extend Record Rise
    100 Very Short Rules for a Better Life
    A Complete Primer to Real Time Payments in the US
    A New Funnel for Music
    A Word on NFTs
    Abridged: Youzan deep-dive
    Addison Rae and the Beauty of 78.5 Million Followers
    An audience with Index Ventures' fintech team
    BlackRock 2.0: Substack for Trading
    Board Meetings As Meditations
    Bottom Up Pricing & Packaging: Let the User Journey Be Your Guide
    Bus Factor
    Commenting vs. making
    Coupang: The Art of Obsession
    Creative Think
    Desperation
    Digital Sky Technologies takes $200m stake in Facebook
    Elon Musks’ “3-Step” First Principles Thinking
    Enterprise Gateway Marketplaces Will Turn Large Organizations Inside-Out
    Excel Never Dies
    Finance as culture
    Free startup ideas (from @dwr)
    Game Devs Explain Why Doors Are One Of The Worst Features To Implement
    Gaming is Eating Culture
    Hipgnosis Is Buying Mega Music Libraries — and Plans to Spend $1 Billion More
    How does authentication work?
    How Figma’s multiplayer technology works
    How John And Patrick Collison Built Stripe Into The PayPal Of The Mobile Era
    How Scenes Work, with Jim O'Shaughnessy
    How to Improve Focus and Energy
    How Two Buck Chuck revolutionized the wine industry
    I Know What You Think of Me
    In-Depth Guide on How to Greatly Boost Video Chat Quality
    Jesse Jacobs and Mike Kerns on Building The Chernin Group
    Legacy of a "crazy" deal.
    Looking Closely is Everything
    Making Uncommon Knowledge Common
    Mediatonic made around 130 games before it struck gold with Fall Guys
    Memetic Arrows & Narrative Currency // part 1?
    Moderation in Infrastructure
    Moore's Law for Everything
    Narratives and hype in verticals
    NFTs and CBGBs: how's that for a clickbait title
    NFTs and the Future of Work
    NFTs for Digital Art Are Surging in Popularity —and Price. What Are They Really Worth?
    NFTs Need an Audience
    No-Code & Low-Code by Pietro & Ben
    Nobody Cares
    On art and business and context and mirrors
    on being known
    on learning in public
    on shame
    on sticking with it
    Outgrowing software
    Owning the funnel
    Pipe It! Platforms, Funding, and the Future
    Progressive Decentralization: A Playbook for Building Crypto Applications
    Proof of Passion
    Proof of X
    Reddit: Organized Lightning
    Regulating Anti-Social Behavior
    Remix Culture: Jumpstarting Creativity
    Retail, rent and things that don't scale
    Sick of Myself
    Something is Happening in Germany
    Sourdough bread, ASMR, and subreddits: virtual communities are here to stay
    Steve Jobs - Thoughts on Flash
    Stripe Teardown: How The $36B Payments Company Is Supercharging Online Retail
    The “Free Parking” Business Model
    The 3 Types of "Platform" Companies
    The Absurd Nike Scandal That Has Sneakerheads Losing Their Minds
    The American-Dream-as-a-Service
    The Case For Better Watch Typography
    The China Spec: Douyin
    The Common Denominator of Success
    The Devaluing of the U.S. Dollar
    The Future Belongs to Minari’s Steven Yeun
    The Great Chinese Art Heist
    The Man Who Abandoned Value
    The nature of "the miss"
    The New Era of Social Media Isn’t About Feeds
    The Paradoxes of Coinbase
    The Perks of Niche Fame
    The Polymath Playbook
    The Presence Shortage
    The rise of NFTs
    The Rise of Platform Brands
    The Shortness of Time
    The Slow Death of the Firm.
    The World According to Rene Girard
    Three’s Company
    TV show hosts are our friends
    Understanding Coupang: Setting a New Bar for Global E-Commerce?
    Valheim’s biggest secret? Trusting the player
    we do it for the artists
    Weird & Güd - Talking to Your Self
    Welcome to Renaissance 2.0
    What Do Human Beings Need?: Rethinking Technology and the Good Society
    What Is Everybody Doing on Discord?
    What is Snapchat? - YouTube
    What the NFT? VC David Pakman dumbs down the intensifying digital collectibles frenzy
    What's On Deck for On Deck?
    When Content Becomes Your King
    When Content Becomes Your King
    When Everyone’s a Genius (A Few Thoughts on Speculation)
    Write Simply
    Zapier’s CEO Reveals How His Automation Startup Reached A $5 Billion Valuation Without Jumping On The VC ‘Hamster Wheel’