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Stripe’s 2023 annual letter is here! Lots of detail on what we’re seeing across the internet economy, including a robust startup ecosystem despite the VC pullback. stripe.com/annual-updates…

“Show me a child who doesn’t want to hear a story and tell it back. We put them through a utility education and say that the arts are a luxury. The arts develop our natural creativity. If creativity is a luxury, then being human is a luxury.” Jeanette Winterson, being brilliant.

Read this beautiful and devastating piece by David Frum on love, loss and a dog

"The democratic fabric is held together by daily acts of consideration that middle managers are in a position to practice and foster." The Quiet Magic of Middle Managers nytimes.com/2024/04/11/opi…

Stripe Sessions is next week in San Francisco! We’ll share 30+ product updates, talk about the future of payments, chat with Jensen Huang, Fidji Simo, and @lhsummers, and host an expo showing the latest in AI with Monumental Labs, Anthropic, @GitHub, and ElevenLabs.

"Every CEO succeeds for his or her own reason. The CEO job is inherently idiosyncratic. It's specific to the market you're in, the team you have, the moment in time, the scale of your company and so on. All of these really broad variables determine what is needed of a CEO. And

This is powerful reframing and I'm here for it.

🧵 1️⃣ When my in-laws booked their flight to Berlin (which would be their first trip abroad), my husband and I told them, “We can get a cheap flight or train ticket to almost anywhere. Where in Europe would you like to go?” Without hesitating, my father-in-law said, “Lorraine.”

How it started / how it’s going

Whenever you're stuck in a disagreement, come back to this: Are you arguing over what's factual, what matters, or what works?

objectively fantastic content

Yes! Jeff Weinstein has appetite and energy for customer feedback and requests like no other person I've worked with

Exactly right

President Gerald Ford's in 1989 when asked for advice on how a woman could become president

Strong list per usual and special congrats to Adelle Waldman! Help Wanted is an important novel and I hope your work on better policies for part-time workers bears fruit.

When I was a PhD student, my advisor taught me what good management of technical talent looks like. We used to meet on a weekly basis, and towards the end of that week-long period of banging my head against the wall on an ambiguous problem, my enthusiasm and drive to dig deeper

The most beautiful thing I read in a while Maria Popova. I will be printing it out and re-reading everyday: themarginalian.org/2024/10/22/mar…

New from Stripe Press: Boom, by Byrne Hobart and Tobias Huber. "The dot-com bubble looked like the peak of delusion, but the truly deluded were those who wanted to indefinitely defer the future. Everyone knows bubbles can disguise madness as wisdom; read this book for the

ICYMI: My latest is a long piece on the historic rise in social isolation in America. Here are the 10 most important, depressing, or just mind-blowing statistics I found in my reporting. ON SOCIAL ISOLATION 1. Men who watch television now spend 7 hours in front of the TV for

Two exceptional humans 😊