big ideas

How to scale nuclear power.

Venture investor Ryan McEntush writes that the tides are turning for nuclear energy after a long hiatus from building new reactors. Not only does it seem that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is speeding up its review process, but also a […]

retail therapy

Celebrity-led brands are the future of consumer products.

“You might dismiss as mere gimmicks products from YouTube stars like MrBeast and Logan Paul—think Feastables snacks and Prime energy drinks, respectively. But billionaire venture capitalist Marc Andreessen leans toward another view: that they represent the future of consumer-product relationships.” ~ learn […]

retail therapy

Amazon’s lowering fees to compete with Shein.

The author of this post suggests this won’t really solve anything… “Amazon rarely changes referral fees, and reducing the fee by 70% for items in Shein’s key price segment is unquestionably a response to Shein. But even if fees were […]

retail therapy

Why are sales down?

“Several fashion retailers and e-commerce platforms are playing the blame game when it comes to Temu and Shein.” ~ learn more

better doing

Picking a purpose.

Technologist David Heinemeier Hansson (known as DHH) is now a bit of a philosophy student as well. “Eric Fromm followed the same path of wisdom to additional insights. In The Pathology of Normalcy, he spells out exactly what makes modern […]

better doing

Unleashing your secret identity.

Todd Herman helped Kobe Bryant craft his alter ego, the Black Mamba. He is a performance coach who uses the tool of identity, “because your identity—the person or the view of yourself that’s going out to perform on that field—is […]

tech, startups, internet

Lessons from acquiring 586 companies.

This was a top notch discussion with Justin Ishbia of Shore Capital. They’ve deployed $7 billion of capital with an average transaction size of $12 million. It’s all down to the repeatable systems and tons of sports analogies by which […]