#46: Is There a Cooler Future for Giving Gifts?

TikTok is a fascinating mix of both gift culture and flex culture. There’s certainly an element of gift culture to TikTok: people dedicate so much of their time to making content for others’ pleasure, and your fame increases by how much of that entertainment you’ve successfully ‘given away’. But at the end of the day, it’s also about being beautifu... See more

Can we all earn a living for doing what we love, and loving what we do? Surely there is an entire sample space of token design resting on patronage, appreciation and respect as foundational primitives. One centered on the notion of energy that must be earned and refreshed anew in a world of constant entropy. I do believe the weight of historical go... See more

Goody is a messaging company more than an e-commerce company. It’s seeing someone open your gift, reading their note, and the back and forth that ensues that brings the real joy.