Prashant Agarwal

Exploring, Discovering, Living

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“The best news I read in the ten months since I finished writing the book was the research by Michael Mandel of the Progressive Policy Institute that shows that ecommerce is creating more and better jobs than those it is destroying in traditional retail.”

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We do not face a simple choice of digital or analog. That is the false logic of the binary code that computers are programmed with, which ignores the complexity of life in the real world. Instead, we are faced with a decision of how to strike the right balance between the two.

Our Love Affair With Digital Is Over https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/18/opinion/sunday/internet-digital-technology-return-to-analog.html

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Great interview with Tim O'Reilly

https://www.stitcher.com/s?eid=52156931&autoplay=1

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The compromise part of the market is very well serviced,” Burmeister says. “So we go for the uncompromised.

https://www.gq.com/story/outlier-pants-for-the-end-of-the-world

These guys are the Apple of fashion in terms of attitude and aspiration (though not interested in anything near the scale). 

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I’m intrigued by designers that go deeper and go almost to the level of the atom, where we’re co-crqeating with data. I’m thinking about materiality and assembly, where products are moving more harmoniously, more symbiotically on your body so that it’s almost like a secondary skin. I’m really intrigued by how technology can give us a great head-start. But a head-start is a rough draft. We know data can’t dream. That’s where designers come in. The job of the designer tomorrow is to take that head-start, take that information and then imbue on top of that their intellect, their imagination, their heart and their hand.

Nike’s Chief of Design Doodles All Day - The New York Times https://apple.news/AMPhonwvPQ9SVnnm-cAvtNA

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Bullet time. Shinkansen en route to Okayama. (at Okayama Prefecture)

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So much going on... (at Fuglen Tokyo)

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Super chill place with a Scandi vibe, mid century furnishings and great cocktails. Coming back for coffee in the morning. (at Fuglen Tokyo)

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Fall foliage walk in Kusatsu. (at Sainokawara Park)

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The "specially" made chicken soba (at Mugi to Olive)

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Starting my day at Allpress (at Allpress Espresso Tokyo Roastery & Cafe)

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First 24 hours in Tokyo a resounding success! Landed, capsule hotel (freaked me out), japanase breakfast, cool house tour, Gallery Marusan and ending with sake and okonomiyaki! Plus most of day spent cruising around Yanaka on a rental #tokyobike.

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One of Nike’s key strategies for the future is to cut out middleman retailers and sell more of its products directly to consumers through both its own Nike stores and its own website or app. The transition presents a big opportunity for Nike (and other brands) as it might allow them to sell their products more profitably. However, Nike still relies on third-party retailers for 75% of its sales, and shifting away from that reliance also poses significant risks.

Finimize

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How Everlane Hacked Your Wardrobe

“You do not get laid in Everlane.”

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Trump is picking a fight with no foreseeable end. For as long as he addresses players kneeling as the problem instead of the reasons those players are kneeling, there will be protests in the NFL. And Trump seems to believe that he can use resentment against rich athletes—rich black athletes, in particular—as a form of political capital. The NFL has long felt like part of the establishment. Improbably, Trump seems determined to make watching football part of #TheResistance.

https://www.theringer.com/nfl/2017/9/24/16357466/donald-trump-nfl-fan-boycott-tweets