retail therapy

Why consumers don’t want to shop your site.

Why consumers don’t want to shop your site. “Marketplace is where the world is trending not because we want to shop there but because the experience isn’t chopped.” A good reminder that if your own DTC site is harder than […]

retail therapy

Amazon’s top sellers aren’t TikTok Shop’s.

Amazon’s top sellers aren’t TikTok Shop’s. “TikTok makes people want things. Amazon is where people buy things.” Only 498 sellers show up in both platforms’ top 10,000, so being big on one barely predicts being big on the other. ~ […]

better doing

Envy masquerades as strategy.

Envy masquerades as strategy. “Envy masquerades as strategy, and the disguise is good enough that your team will nod along.” Brian Sugar on how easy it is to confuse a jolt of jealousy for conviction, especially now that copying a […]

tech, startups, internet

No safety in the middle.

No safety in the middle. Mike Vernal thinks cheap software creation will push the industry toward a barbell: a few giants that “do it all,” plus a long tail of tiny, niche tools. ~ learn more

tech, startups, internet

Synthetic internet environments.

Synthetic internet environments. “the OAI swarms seeded the web with self-replicating code – contaminating training data so thoroughly that labs may need synthetic internet environments instead.” If this rumor is even partly true, it turns “training on the open internet” […]

tech, startups, internet

Bug bounties meet GPT Astra.

Bug bounties meet GPT Astra. “I’ve committed to pay people who report bugs in my code, up to 750€ for severe errors. Since GPT Astra, I’m now getting several bug reports daily.” Ruben C. Arslan is watching AI turn his […]

fun facts

Aristocrats are basically chimpanzees.

Aristocrats are basically chimpanzees. The piece argues that a post-work world might look less like creative bliss and more like status games and relentless social tracking, with “intrigue” as the organizing activity. ~ learn more

fun facts

A theory on how the French bistro got its name.

A theory on how the French bistro got its name. “Bystro! Bystro!” is Russian for “Quick! Quick!” and there’s a popular legend that Russian soldiers in occupied Paris yelled it when they wanted food. ~ learn more

fun facts

User inter-face.

User inter-face. I don’t really know how to describe this, but I suggest you spend 60 seconds watching it. ~ learn more