You can probably raise your prices. Even if you already have, you can probably raise them again, because you probably didn’t raise them as much as you…
Camp, the made-for-Millennials version of Toys R Us, is liquidating its inventory right now: 40% off everything to build up cash after having all its…
Earlier this week, Ben Thompson went so deep and so thorough on the dynamics of professional sports and reliance on cable TV that he wrote what might be…

February 2023

Earlier this week, Samuel Scott, long-time columnist at The Drum, wrote a piece in which Les Binet (a widely regarded expert in econometrics/media mix…
Audience One of my vices is sports talk radio. It’s bombastic, annoying, and, oddly, entertaining. It’s also relatively new—at least as it relates to…
Editor’s Note: Last year, during the Super Bowl, Coinbase grabbed attention by bouncing a QR code around our screens in what was probably the most…
Welcome to the next hype cycle, friends, where we’ve traded on-chain JPEGs for an AI that can create more of them, faster. Our economic reality has…
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January 2023

Earlier this week, we caught a presentation from Earnest in which Daniel McCarthy, social media’s favorite business professor, discussed that COVID’s…
We got this postcard in the mail yesterday. It came from Moore Brothers, a small, regional wine distributor. If you were to describe them, you’d call…
A couple years ago, we wrote in this space about the different types of loyalty. From that newsletter: If you were to attempt an answer at those…
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Putting aside our curmudgeonly judgement that the word “vibes” has become a standard part of our vocabulary now, it’s worth—in this first newsletter of…

December 2022

It’s the time of year when people dream up ways to better themselves, and resolve—this year, finally—to take action on them. And yet we rarely do. We…