This is For Starters #40

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20 lessons for digital media’s present and future

Curiosity and storytelling are entwined. How can we know more about the world than by being curious about people: what motivates them, what they’re passionate about, what keeps them up at night? Stori...

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The search for the unknown photographer began in the summer of 2022, with the discovery of an old photo album at a flea market in southern France.

Smithfield and Billingsgate markets, which have traded in London for hundreds of years, face the axe.

Molly Baz, food media star and world builder, on creating her new sauce brand Ayoh, building a mix of channels and products, playing the YouTube game, and what she wants to do next.

Generative AI has upended how we write things, or even if we write at all. Now a startup wants to be the main character in the next chapter of that story:

Business is booming at Greenwich Locksmiths.

What happens when a paper company opens a specialty coffee shop? Well, you get the utterly delightful PAP Coffee, located on a small, quiet backstreet and removed from the bustle of Harajuku. The unlikely owner is Sanyo Shigyo, a 55-year old Tokyo-based paper company whose bread and butter is specia

I loved this article about NeonWorks which seems to be the last neon artisan in the Bay Area. The owner, Jim Rizzo is a character, and the article is full of nuggets like: “I think the love of neon is still there, bu

In memory of my friend