There are graphics of various retail floorplan designs in here that I appreciated. “The home furnishings giant enlists a maze-like layout, cheap food, and crafty psychology to get you to fill up your cart.” | learn more
The company is closing all of “its brick-and-mortar bookstores, pop-ups and shops carrying toys and home goods in the United States and United Kingdom.” The TechCrunch article speculates (like, totally speculatively) that the timing might relate to a union push at an […]
“In our chronic pain clinic, we noticed that some people who had changed their diet for other reasons, such as weight loss or diabetes management, started to report a reduction in their nagging pain problems. And one diet in particular […]
By Matt Ridley: “If mutation can make a disease more dangerous, why have rhinoviruses never turned into killers?” | learn more
A valuable lesson on path dependency. Or why “we’ll just change it later” is a strategy with risks. | learn more
“The only people who don’t know that are the team at Reddit, who can’t be bothered to build a decent search interface. So instead we resort to using Google, and appending the word “reddit” to the end of our queries.” | learn […]
Congratulations Noah, Peter & Raul on this big step! “We are working together to build the “Y Combinator” for fintech companies through a fund and studio model. To accomplish this we’ve created a $125M fund structure with $90+M committed.“ | learn more
“The best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it’s to post the wrong answer.” | learn more (but not much more)
Imagine a webpage that uses AI to invent an entirely new satellite map every time you hit refresh. Reminiscent of this word does not exist from late 2021. | learn more
“Its tiny train slowly bumps back and forth, going approximately nowhere. And it’s now at the center of a massive court battle between its operators and the U.S. federal government.” | learn more