retail therapy
Direct-to-consumer landing pages.
A collection of the web pages that top consumer brands use to sell their products. | learn more
retail therapy
How Ikea tricks you into buying more stuff.
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
retail therapy
Amazon to close 68 physical retail locations.
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 […]
to your health
Solving chronic pain via the kitchen, not the medicine cabinet.
“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 […]
to your health
How respiratory viruses evolve to become milder.
By Matt Ridley: “If mutation can make a disease more dangerous, why have rhinoviruses never turned into killers?” | learn more
better doing
A horse’s ass designed the space shuttle.
A valuable lesson on path dependency. Or why “we’ll just change it later” is a strategy with risks. | learn more
tech, startups, internet
Reddit is currently the most popular search engine.
“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 […]
tech, startups, internet
The future of Candor Ventures.
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
fun facts
Cunningham’s law.
“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)
fun facts
This city does not exist.
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