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Gift Guides Are Terrible And Useless
We just can't have nice things -- even when someone tries to round up nice things
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Lisa Schmeiser
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27 Links You Might Not Have Already Read
It's like "27 Dresses," if by "dresses," you mean, "interesting articles to read."
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Lisa Schmeiser
The Dead Influencers Club
Cleaving to icons of a previous age is an act of pessimism
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Lisa Schmeiser

October 2023

I'm going to pretend I sent this out last Friday
... and you're going to pretend you're paying attention on a Zoom call instead of reading this newsletter
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Lisa Schmeiser
Let Your Birkenstocks Lead the Way
Hippie shoes provide a model for the future in this week's collection of reads around reckoning with the past and thinking ahead.
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Drawing Connections Slowly, Then All At Once
The Modern Web is optimized by and for algorithms, not people. I want to bring back old-school randomness once a week.
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July 2023

On Social Media & the Allure of Outsourcing One's Thinking
Which social media site will tell me what to think now? I mean, I guess I could go full Instagram but I like vaccines ...
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Lisa Schmeiser
Step One: Shiplap. Step Two: ??? Step Three: Profit!
The branding bungles of Warner Brothers Discovery were entirely preventable -- and could be very expensive if not corrected.
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May 2023

It's No Crime to Close a Nordstrom
Peek at the numbers for a look at what's going on with retail in 2023
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January 2023

Our closets are in chaos. Good.
By their shifting wardrobes ye shall know a generation's shifting values
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December 2022

The liminal, exciting potential of San Francisco's downtown
"When you're alone and life is making you lonely/ you can always go downtown" isn't exactly true these days
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Lisa Schmeiser
Forget a vibe change, we're in a zeitgeist shift
I hope you're not tired of cultural churn, because the signs and portents are pointing to a few new ideas and attitudes about to go mainstream
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