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From J. Ive, A. Zuckerman, “Designed by Apple in California”, 2016 Nov

Introduction by Jony Ive

This is a book with very few words.

It is about our products, their physical nature, and how they were made.

While this is a design book, it is not about the design team, the creative process, or product development. It is an objective representation of our

Consumer Trends 2021

newconsumer.com

Three focus areas for investment: crypto, fintech, and emerging markets . I expect roughly 50% of investments to be crypto-related.

On the speed and concentration spectrum, Generalist capital sits left of centre and plans to invest in ~20 companies over the next 18 months. Reasons for this approach include : 1. Meaningful Ownership; 2. Maintain an e... See more

Mario Gabriele • Generalist Capital: In Search of Epics | The Generalist

MIT Media Lab's Journal of Design and Science Is a Radical New Kind of Publication

Liz Stinson wired.com

Seven judges sat in a line at a long table, four women and three men, swaddled and comfortable, wrapped in scarves and caftans. Plain fabrics, generous cuts. They had different-colored skin and different-colored hair, but they shared a satisfied plumpness. It looked like a committee of harvest gods drawn from all the pantheons. All except one, seat

Robin Sloan • Sourdough

But Dewey, born in 1859 (the same year as Henri Bergson, who shared many of these concerns), was part of a generation whose intellectual formation occurred when it was still possible, if not excusable, for the idea of novelty to be explored independently of the logistics of capitalist production and circulation.

Jonathan Crary • 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep

This made me think of the other recent case against Apple from Epic, where Apple's response to the court was essentially trolling. The judgement required Apple to allow apps to advertise outside marketplaces where users could purchase in-game items. So apple responded by allowing developers to apply to place exactly one text-only (non-hyperlink), s... See more

Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union | Hacker News

Polyvore 3.0 is all about luxury as membership, taste signaling and belonging to taste communities.

Ana Andjelic • Luxury x Culture

Daunt also refused to dumb-down the store offerings. The key challenge, he claimed was to “create an environment that’s intellectually satisfying—and not in a snobbish way, but in the sense of feeding your mind.”