š”Think
For the next two weeks Iām going to be in our office every day, and it certainly feels alien. Itās wild to think how much working life has changed in the past 18 or so months.
The schedule transforms your morning from slow, paced, intentional, to rushing around and eating toast on your walk to the tube station before standing inside someoneās armpit for 30 minutes and arriving home at 7pm.
When we think about ābalanceā, the way things were tipped those scales significantly. However, being always on in a work-from-home world means that balance is still heavily work focussed, but youāre wearing sweat pants instead of slacks.
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ā¶ Tech moguls are looking for a new playground
This is a great little article about Jack Dorsey, his exit from Twitter and betting on the āfutureā of the internet by going all in on Square. The thing about this though is that techās leaders are changing the narrative to shift focus away from something that isnāt working. Related: Facebookās rebrand.
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ā· Spotify Wrapped, unwrapped
Iām sure youāve also been flooded with peopleās Spotify Wrapped this week on social media, but have you stopped to consider that itās actually just a mass surveillance feature? With our data, Spotify is able to create virality, and thatās kind of the opposite of how weād normally react to this kind of tracking, isnāt it?
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āø PokĆ©mon and the first wave of digital nostalgia
Ahhh, PokĆ©mon, every millenialās favourite grainy pixel game. Thereās a general trend in tech for throwback tools, artistic style, or full blown websites ā someone recreated the MySpace website. This digital nostalgia is informing entire industries now, with the NFT boom being driven forward by this old style pixel art. Anyone fancy chatting on MSN?
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Bonus round
An 11 minute short movie starring Will Ferrell
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Boostrapping, with the Mailchimp CEO
Although this episode is a rerun, itās timely because of Mailchimpās recent acquisition by Intuit. Before this, they had been running for decades without raising a single dollar of investment, which in this day and age is just unheard of. Itās really inspiring to see how they landed on Mailchimp as a business, almost by mistake actually.
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Have a great week,
Luis Ouriach
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Kevin Fernandez (@kvnfz)
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