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Social Media has a Commerce Problem
The difficulties of layering commerce atop social
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Sam Blumenthal
When Things Fall Apart
Scrutinizing two myths that stand in the way of peace
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Taste, Status, & The Future of Shopping
How and why we express our taste through clothing, and what that means
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eCommerce is Dead, it Just Doesn't Know it Yet
Native vs. Skeuomorphic innovation, lessons from Gaming, and the future of online commerce
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Zero Marginal Cost Intelligence is Inevitable
The AI Bubble, DeepSeek's Purpose, LegalZoom Case Study, Cloud Computing Lessons, Interface all the way down
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Studying the S&P 500: Infrastructure, Mobility, and the Bottlenecks of Progress
How Vulcan Materials Reveals the Next Wave of Billion-Dollar Startups
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As Switching Costs Decline, Usage Will Be the New Moat
The Next Big Thing in AI Will Be a Lawsuit, Software Strategy and the Future of Defensibility, A New Constitution for Business Strategy
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Lost in Translation
Musings from Wandering in Japan
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The North Star Metric: A Simple Guide
A guide to finding clarity, focus, and strategic direction through your product’s most important metric.
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A Conversation with Kendall Lowrey on Our Robotics Future
Modular Robotics, Event-Based Camera Perception and more
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AI is Here: Musings on What it Could Mean
Musings on AI: AI Interface, Aggregation Theory, Heart on my Sleeve, Philosophical Considerations, Postmodern Theology
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Apprenticeship as a Dataset
Final Reflections from Japan
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