Taking a look at “Generation Moonshot” Over the past few years, Robinhood started to rival Instagram for screen time on the phones of young people wading into the waters of investing for the first time. Never before had investing been so culturally relevant. Throw in crypto, meme stocks, unrestricted options trading, and a dose of Covid…

The fastest growing niche in the industry… — The fastest growing niche in the luxury goods industry isn’t handbags or watches… it’s counterfeit. According to the OECD, the overall market for fakes is ~$4.5T. Over 60% of that is suspected to be made up of luxury knock offs. Some estimate between 5–7% of the luxury goods industry is…

In 1954, a middle-distance runner from Portland named Phil Knight enrolled at the University of Oregon and joined their track team, coached by Bill Bowerman. Knight was never a stand-out on the Oregon track team — which was one of the best in the country — but his curiosity and…

Twitter’s Franchise Expert — The more I think about the purpose of this series, the more I find myself returning to the idea of recognizing the legitimacy of Twitter (particularly threads) as a vessel for the same type of creativity that one used to find in the pages of a magazine or the archives…

Nathan Baugh: Unwinding The Thread — Nathan Baugh is an expert in the art of the Twitter thread. Every piece of his viral threads is intentional, strategic, and effective. That’s why I figured it would make sense to begin my experiment with a closer look at one of Nathan’s threads, extracting the tools and tactics implemented…

Meet Skynine. NFTs Net Worth (Zapper): $5.5M+ If you head over to Rarity Tools and check out the rarest Bored Apes from the BAYC collection, a peculiar name pops up. Then again, and again, and again. This anonymous wallet owns 2 of the top 5 rarest Apes and 4 of the top…

The difference between abundance and scarcity defines all of our interactions in the marketplace today (and almost all of our interactions are, indeed, relegated to the marketplace). It’s on this margin where we make the choice to be generous or withholding, communitarian or solitary, mindful or suspicious. “Modern capitalist societies…

I had been promising myself for a long time that I’d start writing again. Months went by, and in place of even beginning the process of putting pen to paper (or fingers to keys), I’ve settled for Twitter threads and excuses. When I finally decided I’d run out of self-justifying…