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Second, I’m reflecting on a point former Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale famously made in 1995: “There are only two ways to make money in business: bundling and unbundling.” I think we’re burnt out by the fragmentation that the D2C era brought to everything. After subscribing to tons of hyper-niche content over the years, the idea of a couple brands we ... See more
Michelle Rose Joseph • No. 13 — Reclaiming Discovery From the Algorithms
Alison Roman: “Everyone’s disrupting, and it’s exhausting. And sure, it’s nice to have options, but I don’t wanna ask people to spend their money on something that’s not necessary.”
Blackbird Spyplane • Everyone's disrupting and it's exhausting
For a long time, retail survived on taste and real estate — curation and distribution. The internet made it possible for regional clothing stores like Need Supply to sell to a global audience and build larger businesses. But then it also made it easier for consumers to find everything, anywhere — at the lowest price — challenging any sense of loyal... See more
Dan Frommer • The end of Need Supply
A Taste of Generation Yum: How the Millennial Generation’s Love for Organic Fare, Celebrity Chefs and Microbrews Will Make or Break the Future of Food
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we’re not so much tripping over nostalgia, revivals and retro but hoarding them. We have become pack rats of our collective past.
The Face • Our obsession with nostalgia is driving a trend revival spiral
If we do not understand that most people had no choice but to devote their lives to growing and cooking food, we are incapable of comprehending that the foods of Culinary Modernism — egalitarian, available more or less equally to all, without demanding the disproportionate amount of the resources of time or money that traditional foodstuffs did — a... See more
