The emergence of department stores opened up a vast array of choices for the everyday consumer. No longer did they have to go to the corner store and hope their store clerk was selling what they desired — these massive stores offered a larger selection of products at cheaper prices. Sears, Macy’s, JCPenney — these were all great businesses.
Until the internet and Amazon came along and reshaped the industry to fit a barbell distribution.
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Visualize your creativity as a backed-up pipe of water. The first mile of piping is packed with wastewater.
This wastewater must be emptied before the clear water arrives.
- Julian Shapiro, Creativity Faucet
We treat "playing" and "hobbies" as qualitatively different from "work".
It's not clear to a kid building a treehouse that there's a direct (though long) route from that to architecture or engineering.
- Paul Graham, A Project of One’s Own
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