Episodes

  • No. 14: Founders are stepping down everywhere and nobody's asking why

    No. 14: Founders are stepping down everywhere and nobody's asking why
    Mar 10 2026
    Culture Pulse: 72. Founder era over. Operators in. Meanwhile: Starbucks curates fashion, tech hides in clothes, retail becomes hospitality. Everything's blending. Pattern for March 10.
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    4 mins
  • No. 13: Luxury brands treating pop-ups as theatre rehearsals, not retail experiments

    No. 13: Luxury brands treating pop-ups as theatre rehearsals, not retail experiments
    Mar 9 2026
    Culture Pulse: 68. Starbucks does Devil Wears Prada pop-ups. Palmer Luckey hunts $1B for Game Boy nostalgia. Brands are excavating the past or staging the future. The present has become commercially inert.
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    5 mins
  • No. 12: Pentagon patronage splits Silicon Valley along new ethical production lines

    No. 12: Pentagon patronage splits Silicon Valley along new ethical production lines
    Mar 8 2026
    Culture Pulse: 78. Pentagon deals fracture AI talent, Asics buys marathon platforms, Iran targets Gulf datacenters. The pattern: infrastructure capture is the new moat. Before it's obvious.
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    5 mins
  • No. 11: Brands are buying the infrastructure, not just selling the product.

    No. 11: Brands are buying the infrastructure, not just selling the product.
    Mar 7 2026
    Culture Pulse: 76. Asics bought the marathon. Anthropic beat ChatGPT by saying no to the Pentagon. Netflix killed celebrity branding. Control is moving upstream, not downstream.
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    5 mins
  • No. 10: Big luxury's creative crisis meets sportswear's data land grab for consumers

    No. 10: Big luxury's creative crisis meets sportswear's data land grab for consumers
    Mar 6 2026
    Culture Pulse: 72. Big luxury can't define sexy, healthcare can't define wellness, defence can't define risk. Into each vacuum: data infrastructure or crowd-sourced alternatives. Before it's obvious.
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    5 mins
  • No. 9: Financialisation reaches physical objects as watches become tradeable assets like stocks

    No. 9: Financialisation reaches physical objects as watches become tradeable assets like stocks
    Mar 5 2026
    Culture Pulse: 68. Rolex gets futures contracts, Dover Street Market opens a spa, and creators are out-convening Vogue. Everything solid is becoming liquid. The Pattern, March 5.
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    5 mins
  • No. 8: Luxury financialisation reaches its logical extreme with Rolex derivatives trading

    No. 8: Luxury financialisation reaches its logical extreme with Rolex derivatives trading
    Mar 4 2026
    Culture Pulse: 68. Rolex derivatives, Sony's console retreat, and Dover Street Market spas: when the object matters less than the system it plugs into. Everything is infrastructure now.
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    5 mins
  • No. 7: Meta Tests AI Shopping Research Tool to Rival ChatGPT

    No. 7: Meta Tests AI Shopping Research Tool to Rival ChatGPT
    Mar 3 2026
    Culture Pulse: 82. Today's Pattern: Meta Tests AI Shopping Research Tool to Rival ChatGPT. Culture Pulse at 82. 110+ sources scanned.
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    1 min