Matthew Ball of REDEF offers a really comprehensive analysis of how the music industry has evolved through the major sea changes of digitization, piracy, streaming, and more. He also lays out what the future might look like, and what it’ll […]
She’s credible: “Jepsen is a former engineering executive at Facebook, Oculus, Google[x] (now called X) and Intel. She’s also been a professor at MIT and is an inventor on over 100 patents. And that’s the abbreviated version of her resume.” […]
In news that’s stranger than fiction, the Pakistani Prime Minister and his daughter are in the middle of a scandal called #fontgate because a document she released is dated 2006, but the font wasn’t commercially available until 2007. | learn more
“I find for myself that my first thought is never my best thought. My first thought is always someone else’s; it’s always what I’ve already heard about the subject, always the conventional wisdom. It’s only by concentrating, sticking to the […]
Sometimes it’s easy to get myopic, forgetting that there are many great retailers outside of the US market. This Bloomberg article highlights A.S. Watson Group, which plans to open 1,400 stores this year – a third of them in China. […]
Buy Online Deliver From Store (BODFS). The acronym sucks, but the service is a big deal. Now the retailer has digitized everything about it to make it even more efficient. |learn more
Check out these interesting slides presented by the CEO of Nextfood at the Nordic Next 2017 conference. He shows some interesting data about the market for food, future trends and more. |learn more
Strategist Ben Thompson makes his case for why Amazon really bought the organic foods retailer. Think about how both the Fufillment and AWS businesses were built around Amazon.com’s retail business as the cornerstone customer. Will WF be the cornerstone customer […]
The three scientists who developed the theory posit that almost every gene is relevant for almost every outcome. Not every gene is a star player, but many small roles add up too. | learn more
Stanford Professor Robert Sapolsky discusses the deeply-rooted phenomenon of dividing the world between us and them. He also analyses how we categorize thems, and proposes some strategies to overcome this mentality. | learn more