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    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 👑