This is always one newsletter that brings joy to my soul each week. But, this week, "For Starters" took their interview and imagery to another level with Danny D's Mud Shop ❤️ @danielgiaco.bsky.social, what you're doing with "For Starters". 👏 👏 👏 Read this masterpiece below. 👇

"I think of a brand as a consistent promise ... ‘I promise to make the best running shoes on the planet’. .. What’s your promise? Your promise is your brand." (David Hieatt) Via For Starters by @danielgiaco.bsky.social. An email laden with good ideas. www.forstarters.co/subscribe?re...

It was no surprise that the first issue of @danielgiaco.bsky.social's new @forstarters.bsky.social is popping and hissing with interesting things. Highly recommended: www.forstarters.co/subscribe?re...

I had some newsletter fun: "The New Rules of Media", 20 lessons for How Digital Media Works Now, with help from @deliacai.bsky.social @davidcho.bsky.social @nwquah.bsky.social // onethingnewsletter.substack.com/p/the-new-ru...

For those of us who run our own small businesses… You’ll rarely find so much wisdom packed into one page of a website (by @iansanders.bsky.social ) www.iansanders.com/25truths

These are two legit excellent reads for new business founders. @shl.bsky.social @andybudd.bsky.social

Dude was just admiring the navy wallpaper in Mar-a-Lago's private dining room and yadda yadda yadda he's now running the Navy.

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Time marches on, I suppose, but the idea of Smithfield becoming a giant WeWork, or a collection of food vans with names like The Crazy Taco Bros, makes me want to eat my own hands.

"Follow your passion" they said...

"If you find this album, take care of it and have the courage to look at it." An incredible story.

Sad day. I suppose the greedy City wants to redevelop the sites? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

900 years is just crazy. A sad end. My backyard is about to become NYC’s meatpacking.

If you know somebody who is struggling with life at the moment & might appreciate a free photobook please drop me an email - [email protected] - with their details. We have a number of slight seconds & we'd love them to go to a good home! No deadline, anytime! UK only due to postage costs.

I talked to Molly Baz, one of my favorite food people, about the portfolio of businesses she's building around herself: → Balancing the YouTube algo vs. authenticity → Why she's launching Ayoh, a mayo startup → How people want to eat Read or listen @newconsumer.com: newconsumer.com/2024/11/moll...

One unspoken tragedy: MAGA has ruined the fashion of one of my favourite films.

Here we go...

Always good to keep things in perspective. What data from your life will be intact 50, 100, 200 years from now? A printed photo? A moleskine notebook? An external hard drive? A tiny memory card?

If you die in bluesky, you die in real life

Nothing but respect for the humbling effects of the recession on millennial expectations.

oh man I want a subway token key now gothamist.com/arts-enterta...

This is what happens when a specialty paper shop opens a specialty coffee shop in Harajuku www.spoon-tamago.com/pap-coffee-p...

It's not!

Creating stunning fine art prints on handmade Japanese paper for the Special Edition of my new book with Rogier at Temple Studios. Preorder now, ships next week www.wesley.co/shop/p/new-b...

The oldest forest in the world noahkalina.substack.com/p/newsletter...

Do I really enjoy hojicha tea or do I just enjoy saying the word 'hojicha'? Hojicha.

“Funny story: My first day here, I lit myself on fire.” Inside the last company making neon signs in the Bay Area. [kottke.org]

Completely charmed by these door buzzer characters I photographed in Venice last week. Sort of want to make a book of them.

Enrique Allen craigmod.com/roden/097/

imagine what the prospect of people having to face their extended families in one week will do to that line

This is nice, eh? A reintroduction... 👋🏼 –Editor, photographer and New Yorker living in London (Barbican!) for 15 years –Hosted a biz podcast for Monocle before podcasts were a thing (2010-17) then edited Courier (bought by Mailchimp) –Follow for an unholy mix of small biz, street photos, rants, etc

Tree.fm allows you to listen to a random forest. This is beautiful.