Issue #6 - Yeezy Dating, Dark Web Index, Ford Broncos, Designer Cereal, & Dominic Fike
Stories, products, & tunes for the modern internet trailblazer
July 17, 2020
📰 News
🚧 The three year journey designing Yeezy Supply's ecommerce site
❤️ Also, the epic story of Yeezy Dating
🌟 Who woulda thought stars make beautiful ambient music
👽 The Fermi Paradox
⏪ Analysis of YouTube Trending Videos of 2019 (US): "Linus Tech Tips (a technology channel) was the channel that produced most trending videos in 2019. It is a technology (not entertainment nor music) and personal (not corporate) channel. More than that, the 2nd and 3rd channels after Linus Tech Tips were cooking channels."
🔮 Life in 2022: Local news dying, end of one-stop shop retail, and higher ed ass-out
🤝 There's power in the music of protest
🐈 Imagine playing a video game where the main character is a stray cat in a distant cyberpunk robot future
🧠 Here's some technique on how to hack your ability to memorize
⏱️ 8:46 - Dave Chappelle
🎂 Reddit turned 15: "The result was messy, multicultural, and profoundly human."
📱 Ringtones shaped the modern world
🎥 Nothing really seems far off when an AI actor can lead a $70m film budget
😭 King James & Maverick raised $100m for SpringHill, a media company whose name pays homage to the apartment complex where Lebron grew up
🏦 A quick history lesson on the burning of Black Wall Street
🖋️ Cooper Black in Pop Culture
👀 How TikTok keeps us addicted
😂 We all know a 'Karen'...or 'Sharon’
🐦 According to security experts, this Twitter is hack is actually pretty bad
💼 Publishers are going after Internet Archive for copyright infringement
💱 Dark Web Price Index 2020
🕹️ Products
2021 Ford Bronco - The American legend Jeep-killer
Offlimits - Designer, art-inspired, Saturday morning cereal
HumanIPO - Raise human equity
This Word Does Not Exist - As the name suggests
Hawkeye - Eye-tracking comes to user research
Atmos - Build your house, simply
Keen - Google comes for Pinterest
Koji - Meme marketplace
Repiler - Answer questions buried in poorly written emails
Buildbox - No-code game dev
July - Design-first, window unit AC
Anygood - To-do list meets recommendations
Profithunt - Profitable online projects
Public - Robinhood meets Facebook
🎧 Music
Dominic Fike - Politics & Violence
Durand Jones & The Indications - Don’t You Know
Lute - Life
Roddy Ricch: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
boy pablo - hey girl
Big K.R.I.T. - “K.R.I.T. Iz Here” Short Film
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