retail therapy

Walmart’s drones are coming.

Walmart’s drones are coming. “Walmart is bringing its Wing drone delivery service to the Philadelphia region.” Living in Austin and seeing Waymos drive around everywhere feels like the future. Hard to imagine delivery drones on top of that, but it’s […]

retail therapy

Go unsexy.

Go unsexy. “Go for those categories that are ripe for disruption that really need someone smart representing the needs of the consumer.” PrettyLitter scaled past $100M in sales with about a dozen full-time employees and only $1M raised, before selling […]

retail therapy

Why do commercial spaces sit vacant?

Why do commercial spaces sit vacant? “in many cases, lowering the rent on a building will force the bank to foreclose on it.” The piece explains why a half-empty storefront can still make more sense to the owner and the […]

to your health

Blood cleansing for microplastics.

Blood cleansing for microplastics. “Among patients with the highest levels of circulating microplastics, average levels fell from 52.2 to 21.1 particles per 100 microliters of blood after a single treatment.” Therapeutic plasma exchange is an FDA-cleared procedure, but the study […]

better doing

How entrepreneurs figure out what they want.

How entrepreneurs figure out what they want. Taylor Pearson argues that you get unstuck by inventorying your means first, then letting the goals emerge from them. “Assuming you have some vague goal or sense of which direction you’d like to […]

tech, startups, internet

Tokenmaxxing was a mass delusion.

Tokenmaxxing was a mass delusion. “Tokenmaxxing was a mass delusion, something like a commercial form of AI psychosis.” Markie Wagner argues companies should stop celebrating token spend and start measuring “Return on Tokens” like any other investment. ~ learn more

tech, startups, internet

How to earn a billion dollars.

How to earn a billion dollars. “Exponential growth is like magic. It generates outcomes that seem impossible.” Paul Graham does the math on what it takes to go from a few million to a billion, and then explains why the […]

oh, chicago

Illinois wants more money and they’re coming for it.

Illinois wants more money and they’re coming for it. I shared a bit about this budget bill that passed the Illinois legislature. Well, it’s been signed into law. It includes several new taxes, including one on social media platforms. The […]