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It’s All So … Premiocre
A peculiar part of the Microwave Economy is that wealthy people aren’t immune to it. Escaping the Microwave Economy has little to do with money. You can buy flashy, but you can’t buy meaningful.
David Perell • The Microwave Economy
high style isn’t necessarily the same thing as high quality. It can’t seem to remember that luxury is not defined by price. Luxury is defined by scarcity. Plenty of consumers are plenty happy just to be treated well and offered a good value. The experience may not be memorable for anything other than the elegance of its utility. These days that kin
... See moreTim Manners • Relevance: Making Stuff That Matters
Historically, luxury was expressed in the soaring vaulted ceilings and dazzling stained glass of a cathedral; now, luxury is in a piece of technology so perfect that it seems human hands cannot possibly have created it. Luxury is the market equivalent of feathers on a bird. It’s irrational and sexual, and it easily overwhelms the killjoy, rational ... See more
Dirty Furniture • TELL ME, DO YOU INTEND TO FUCK IT?
Same day shipping. Buy it without seeing it in person first. Free returns. The speed of commerce quickening at the same pace the cost and quality of the goods are decreasing. And the amount of things we keep buying shows no sign of abating. Amazon is on its way to selling half a trillion dollars worth of goods in America this year. And with new bar
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