Issue #9 - New Black Market, RIP Flash, Gen Z Report, Supersonic Jet, Banking for Rich People, Jenevieve, & Tobi Lou
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October 19, 2020
📰 News
💊 Meet the next generation of digital black markets for illegal drugs
🕹️ History of how Flash (RIP) changed video games forever
🎹 Interview w/ Porter Robinson on the creative process
🙈 Art: “Free WiFi. Network: goodluck”
🎞️ The 100 animation sequences that shaped the future of the field
🌎 Perspective: We are small & insignificant creatures
📰 "About a quarter of all U.S. adults (26%) say they get news on YouTube" from Pew Research Center
🤳 TikTok is the Gen-Z LinkedIn, and who would have thought normal jobs go consistently viral
🏦 Killer Mike started a black-owned bank, and business is booming
🦓 Zebra IQ's 2020 State of Gen Z Report: The lines between creator and consumer continue to blur
💡 100 Startup Ideas from The Generalist. (Our favorites are 2020 Myspace, Stripe Atlas for Co-ops, and Streamlined Metaverse, Magic Eye)
🇺🇸 The end of the American internet by Ben Evans
🎧 Here's an in-depth profile on Daniel Ek, founder, and CEO of Spotify
🤯 Here's a piece from Scientific American on how unlimited information is changing our society (Hint: Consumers and producers are but one.)
👾 Discord's journey from alt-right and gaming to the mainstream
🛍️ Pinduoduo is redefining social commerce through team purchase and games ($PDD)
🕺 Burning Man will never be the same
❌ The Day Malcolm X Was Killed by The New Yorker
🚓 In the age of polarizing politics & tech, Palantir is the golden boy
💀 The truth is we're probably living in tech dystopia now
🌱 Human corpses as soil and pee as fertilizer
🍄 First of many...A magic mushroom company goes public
⏲️ Climate clock ticks towards our doomsday
🔞 Here's a piece on Robolox's war on porn
💳 Stripe: The Internet's Most Undervalued Company by Packy McCormick
🕹️ Products
Raindrop.io - All-in-one bookmark manager
Boom XB-1 - World’s first independently developed supersonic jet
mi:nu:ti:ae - The anti-social media project
Pacaso - A model for co-ownership of homes
TBR - Tailored book recommendations, literally
Patent Drop - Weekly newsletters sharing patents
Letter - Thoughtful conversation via an exchange of written letters
2021 Planner - Be more with less
Roboflow - Computer vision made easy
Poolside Mobile App - Vibes for your cellular
Hellolandlord - Fight shitty landlords
Letter - Banking for rich folks
Medical Bill Art - Fuck medical bills
Writer - Grammarly with style
iOhouse - Off the grid, modern-concept living space
🎧 Music
Jenevieve - Baby Powder
tobi lou - Darlin'
PSICODELIC by Sunni Colón
KAMAUU - MANGO (feat. Adeline)
MadeinTYO - Money Up feat. Toro y Moi
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