The dynamic between brands and retailers is in flux. For decades, most brands needed retailers to reach consumers. For some time, they just preferred the convenience of selling in bulk to few customers. Now many of them have built enough […]
“The former heavyweight champ, famous for delivering a knockout punch, has been selling cannabis products since 2016 through his Tyson Holistic label that are as potent as one of his uppercuts.” | learn more
“Researchers in Germany have trained dogs to detect COVID-19 infections from saliva samples. After only one week of training, the dogs were able to detect the presence of the infection with a 94% accuracy rate.” | learn more
In case you’ve ever faced the same challenge of highlighting certain periods on an Excel chart. | learn more
The act of looking at something changes it – an effect that holds true for people, animals, even atoms. Here’s how the observer effect distorts our world and how we can get a more accurate picture.” I love how Farnam […]
How cool! “No longer confined to the privacy of their rooms, Saudi women are creating their own culture.” | learn more
Alex Mitchell has been creating fantasy portfolios from each YC class since 2017. This years picks include multiple startups building local market versions of US companies like “Plaid for India” and “Checkr for Latin America.” | learn more
The Diff by Byrne Hobart is quickly becoming one of my favorite newsletters. “[T]here are many ways to frame business models. Every one of them asks how a business reverses economic entropy and creates more value than it consumes… None of […]
“An American Airlines pilot reported a sighting of a man in a jetpack thousands of a feet in the air on Sunday, prompting an investigation by authorities.” | learn more
Skylar Tibbits is the founder of the Self-Assembly Lab at MIT. His team’s work is incredible, and his TED talk is the coolest I’ve seen in a long time. He showcases how they created a system of underwater structures that […]