Issue #12 - Issa Rae the Mogul, Fintech Primer, "Free Game" from Virgil, 2021 Tech Trends, Side Hustle Tools, DTC DIY Renovations, Bakar, Goth Babe, Kali Uchis
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January 15, 2021
📰 News
🎩 Issa Rae is a modern mogul
🧰 Primer on what you need to know about the fintech infrastructure
🆓 “Free Game” from Virgil Abloh on how to launch a brand and more from his new website
📈 Tech Trends for 2021 by Spacecadet
👣 How Mimetic Theory is the basis of all things Peter Thiel
🌀 Startup tackling opioid addiction through wearable ketamine
🎭 5 Life Lessons for Dave Chappelle
📣 Here’s an a16z piece on the resurgence of social products
🌚 How do we feel about trust fund socialist activists?
🍄 We always come back to mushrooms
🐦 A supreme Twitter thread Onlyfans' growth and where they're headed
🌎 Jeff Bezos has a $10B Earth Fund and just named the first and latest recipients
🧪 Time's list of the best inventions of the year in 2020
💌 GPT-3 writes love letters
🖼️ A deep dive into images as a concept - “Aesthetics have become one of the most political weapons we have”
📖 All technology platforms are becoming learning platforms
🛒 Shopify predictions on the future commerce and a review of marketplaces in 2020
🔊 The science of sound
🚜 How Farmville (Zynga) changed the world
🧑🎤 TikTok’s influence on Music in 2020
🕹️ Products
Outfit - DTC DIY renovation kits
Rarible - Buy, sell, trade NFTs galore
Surrogate - Play video games in real life
Tequila Matchmaker - Find what distillery your tequila came from
MainSt - Business owner as a service
Side Hustle Stack - Tools for side hustles
Geneva - Build a cozy community
Cashdrop - Sell anything instantly
Welcome - Run Apple-style virtual events
Neon Life - Artificial humans everywhere
Screenity - Run your own free Loom
Substation - Run your recurring subscription
Diaspora - Run your own decentralized social network
15.ai - Natural emotive high-quality faster-than-real-time text-to-speech synthesis with minimal data
Hijack Social - Replace feed ads with to-do list items
🎧 Music
slowthai, A$AP Rocky - MAZZA
Ichon - La Vie | A COLORS SHOW
SZA- Hit Different x Good Days
Bakar - 1st Time
Goth Babe - Moments/Tides
Kali Uchis, Jhay Cortez – la luz (Fín)
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