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The Promised Monthly Update

Sending my November newsletter on the first of December… well, it could be worse! Happy holidays — I hope you’re enjoying the festive season as much as I am, despite the United States’ ever-accelerating political dystopia.

I didn’t publish much this month — just a piece about venture capitalists and cognitive biases. But I’ve also been working on a lovely Afrofuturist newsletter, a website about art supplies, and behind the scenes on other projects.

On my personal blog, I wrote down all my feelings about the election, and of course Exolymph is chugging along.

Here’s the best business writing that I read this month:

  • Indie Hackers posts interviews with successful small-scale technology entrepreneurs. Most recently they featured Logojoy, an AI-powered logo creator that basically prints money. Such a smart idea.
  • Emily Weiss wrote about her beauty company Glossier raising their Series B. This is a PR fluff piece — lol @ “Glossier is cult, it’s not niche” — but it becomes interesting when you read between the lines. Background on Glossier: one and two.
  • General recommendation: Mathias Lafeldt is really good at describing systems, and most of his insights scale up from code to human nature.
  • A thing about failing to sell WordPress themes.
  • A thing about how Bill Simmons’ new company isn’t guaranteed to be successful.

That’s it! Catch you on the flip side.

— Sonya

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