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I hope my blog finds you well and curious.
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This week I’ve seen three friends. One talked to me about their drop-shipping startup and his woes with Romanian e-commerce. Another one has a supplement production facility and talked to me about his plans to grow online sales, and his woes with offline deals depending so much on networking and so little on product quality. The third hand held me two hours through a demo of his quest to invent the ultimate gamification engine, and we both complained about the woes of doing a startup in this economy.
I could barely share my WordPress drama. They’re cool people, they ask and try their best to empathise with what my day job exposes me to. But I have to say, it’s now as raw as their struggles. It’s just a story of mine about yet another person’s project.
So I end up my week asking, what is my project? Why am I so available to listen to, get involved into, passionately argue for, other people’s projects?
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High performance life style is more high performative life style.
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Buy the paper that saves the trees which is made of plastic but we call it stone paper to hide the tactile obviousness.
“Stone” paper is one of the worst inventions ever. And so many companies jumped on the weird idea just to score dumb environmental points. Someone must have won the jackpot – wait actually stone paper is the same colonialist “discovery” story ha, two dudes “discovered” a Taiwanese company making paper out of stone and s
toletransformed the idea and turned into a separate business. I wonder did the Taiwanese company get any patent royalties? In their origin story they don’t say.Anyway – it’s not even a good product. The eco friendliness is built on bad mouthing traditional paper brands and hiding the HDPE – plastic – it contains. The paper itself ha ha. Just try anything sharp enough. A mechanical pencil is effectively unusable, thicker nibs dry out while writing. The sun shining on your desk ruins your notebook.
It’s a terrible idea pumped up by making a business out of sustainability. Easy as that. If this will replace cellulose paper it may very well replace pet bottles as the no one source of plastic in oceans, rivers and in your body if you like pen and paper and you write a lot 🙂
