The era of massive American corporations reached its zenith in the 1950s. The dominant way of thinking at that time was simple: hierarchical, chain of command and working your way up were valued tremendously. As…
Posts Published by Justin Mares
Small ways you can improve the food system
Probably the largest shift I’ve made over the last decade health-wise is a shift towards prioritizing food quality over almost anything else. When I started going paleo, I’d go HAM on terrible quality stuff that…
How to Decrease Geographic Inequality – an Idea
The below is a somewhat random write-up I had about an idea to enable more liquid labor markets and address geographic income inequality. I since have been made aware (and become friends with) the founder…
technology and the future of health
the below snippet is from my 1x/mo newsletter, The Next Brand. if you enjoyed, sign up here for more – https://justinmares.substack.com/ the tech sector is fascinating. i used to live in Silicon Valley and still…
How I validated my idea for Kettle & Fire
Note – this is a republished from my Substack newsletter (The Next Brand) where I’m doing most of my writing these days. A few people have mentioned they want to know more about how exactly…
How I Fixed My Sleeping Issue
For the last 6 months I’ve had a terrible time sleeping 🛌. More nights than not, I’ve woken up after 5–6 hours completely unable to get back to sleep. Pretty typical night of sleep this…
I’m starting an email newsletter
I started an email newsletter (The Next Brand) where I’ll be doing most of my future writing. My goal is to write 2x/month on topics of health, wellness and building great brands. Check out the…
Is Impossible Burger healthy?
As the plant-based trend picks up steam (and the Beyond Meat IPO outperforms), plenty of people are asking – is the Impossible Burger healthy? tl;dr – no. Not in my opinion. Take a look at…
shipping your calendar
there’s a relatively common idea in startup world that a company “ships its org chart”. this is called Conway’s law: in effect, it means that a given company will end up shipping a product that…
stranded ideas
today i learned about “mastery learning” – basically, a process where students study a concept until they can pass test showing 90% proficiency, then they move onto the next concept. not only that, but it…