retail therapy
Commerce cream
This site curates the best designed Shopify stores and highlights the agencies that created them. It’s a fun place to click around for a bit. | learn more
to your health
Tim Ferriss, the man who put his money behind psychedelic medicine
The NY Times covers the surge in research behind psychedelics and the role of author and podcaster Tim Ferriss. | learn more
tech, startups, internet
Can innovation be sped up?
This author, Scott Sumner, is skeptical. “One would think that there are public policies that would substantially accelerate the pace of innovation. I’m not so sure.” | learn more
better doing
The evolutionary benefit of friendship
“Healthy friendships offer far more than a reliable person to share a beer with. Research shows they can make us healthier, wealthier, happier and overall more successful.” | learn more
better doing
Flow, the secret to happiness
The speaker in this TED talk, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, doesn’t have the best stage presence but his content makes up for it. | learn more
tech, startups, internet
The elusive $1 Billion fund that rattled venture capital
Another case of fake it ‘till you make it going wrong. “[Ellie] Cachette had said publicly that her firm had already committed over $100 million to various funds, but so far hardly anyone had received any money.” | learn more
tech, startups, internet
Watch out for CircleUp
Neil Constable is the new Chief Investment Officer of a firm that’s pioneering quant investing in private markets. They started as a marketplace for venture fundraising, but eventually developed such a great dataset that they closed the marketplace and started […]
oh, chicago
Let’s get rid of all the townships
“Illinois has 1,428 of them — a big reason we lead the nation in number of taxing bodies.” | learn more
fun facts
An oral history of the AIM away message
The author found the original AIM creator and a handful of designers and developers to learn their stories. “It might have started out as something purely functional—a live out-of-office, if you will—but the away message was much more than that.” […]
fun facts
A $9 Billion scam involving Nigeria
“A dying Irishman went for one last big score in Nigeria. The project failed, but a London tribunal says his company’s owed $9 billion and counting.” | learn more