Creating nature Every big brand has a style guide, sort of a Ten Commandments. One commandment is the brand colors, and from it thou shall not deviate. They include at least one primary color and a set of secondary colors with corresponding HEX, RGB, CBYK codes. Take a look at…

Ramblin’ during COVID In the heart of Humboldt County, a stone’s throw from Murder Mountain, there’s a road called Avenue of the Giants, CA Highway 254, where the largest trees in the world grow including Giant Tree, Flat Iron Tree, and the fallen Dyerville Giant. Drive east from Avenue of…

Comparing Holmes to her number one inspiration — An aphoristic note Elizabeth Holmes wrote to herself has been revealed pursuant to her current fraud trial. Here it is:

A crowd of roughly 50–60 concerned citizens gathered outside the residence of LA Mayor Eric Garcetti on Saturday afternoon to protest a drug and homelessness crisis that has boiled over into an emergency. …

Even the name of Dave Chappelle’s new Netflix special, Sticks and Stones, evokes a shattering. It’s inspiring because it’s brave. He stands in front of an Atlanta audience he knows is waiting to get offended, and he tells jokes he knows will offend them. He doesn’t tell them in spite…

Boomers like Roger McNamee remain insistent on changing the world…but not themselves. The latest episode of Sam Harris’ podcast featured billionaire investor Roger McNamee. He was an early Facebook advisor who has since reversed his support of the company and become its biggest critic. He just published a book called Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe and is currently on a…

A Publishing House for the Blockchain Age — Traditional publishers are in decline. They beg us to subscribe, plaster ads all over their content, and dress up other ads as content. They prey on our anger, sell our data, track our movements, and hire consultants to think up other desperate ways to monetize their increasingly risk-averse offerings. All…

Does it make you happier? I don’t know. — About four months ago I quit Facebook and Instagram after a big job I was up for didn’t pan out. Two months later, I left Twitter. The first thing I noticed after I unplugged was that online ads unplugged from me. It was an overnight change. One day I was…

The story of a breakup — This fiction story was edited by Bread & Circuses. THE HOUSE WAS ON A STEEP HOLLYWOOD HILL, about halfway down Beachwood Canyon from the sign. …