Recently, there has been a spate of announcements about companies and restaurants going meatless to – in their own words – āsave the planetā. Looking at you, Epicurious and Eleven Madison. So, I wanted to know – does…
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kids as a service
*note – see why i’m writing without capitalization here. basically, this post is written off the cuff and quite unedited, so treat wisely. charlie munger once said something wise about incentives that’s definitely worth googling….
An idea for a side hustle
I wanted to share the outline of an idea for an investment /Ā side hustleĀ I shared with a friend in January of this year. The opportunity has only gotten more attractive in a post-COVID world, given…
2020 Annual Review and 2021 Goals
It’s become somewhat fashionable lately to poo poo goals, say they’re stupid. Well, I think thatās stupid. When done right, goals are tools to make decisions and narrow down options. Today, most of my friends…
An Idea to Improve Science Funding
Iāve been thinking about how to solve the problem of āhow do we accelerate progressā and wanted to share a potential way Iāve been thinking about it.Ā I sort of see 2 main problem areas…
An idea to improve governance
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…
Small ways you can improve the food system
Probably the largest shift Iāve made over the last decade health-wise is a shift towards prioritizing food quality over almost anything else. When I started going paleo, Iād 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…