Moats, Memory & Melting Clocks
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This week keeps circling one question: what actually stays with people? Brands are swapping celebrity faces for real fans, an artist handed a year of his practice to an AI, and Google wants two people vibe-coding the same screen at once. Even our sense of time is bending under the weight of it all — which might explain why five minutes of stillness suddenly sounds appealing.
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When Products Become the Baseline, Brand Becomes the Moat
Rituals' Head of Content & Design Amanda Gandolpho joins Delivered to make the case that features get copied overnight, but the memories a brand builds don't — and where she draws the line on AI in creative work.
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Why Brands Are Quietly Dropping Celebrities
Spotify built a campaign around an ordinary Geese fan instead of the band. Pepsi built one around Knicks fans instead of players — proof that in a fragmented culture, someone else's famous person means nothing to you.
Read the piececreativeboom.com (opent in een nieuw tabblad) - Mode & retail
IKEA and Xbox Made a Furniture Line Together
The Yxstaby collection turns gaming desks and storage into standard IKEA pieces — a genuinely unexpected collab, even if we were hoping for PlayStation.
See the collectionikea.com (opent in een nieuw tabblad) - AI & technologie
Opinion Is the Moat
Renato Valdes argues that once every product converges on the same AI-assisted feature set, the last real differentiator left is a point of view someone's actually willing to defend.
Read the essayrenatovaldes.com (opent in een nieuw tabblad) - AI & technologie
An Artist Handed His Practice to an AI for a Year
Kevin Esherick trained a model on his notes, his projects, his whole practice, then stepped back and let it make the art instead — and it's making more of it than he ever could.
Read the storysleek-mag.com (opent in een nieuw tabblad) - AI & technologie
Pieter Levels Built an Infinite AI TV Channel
Infinite Slop generates a new scene every few seconds based on what people type in chat, stitching an endless, half-coherent story — 37,000 people watched on day one.
Watch the channelinfiniteslop.ai (opent in een nieuw tabblad) - AI & technologie
Google's New Experiment Is Vibe-Coding, Together
Play with Putty lets two people describe an app in plain language and watch it build live in the same room, like a shared doc for software.
Try it outlabs.google (opent in een nieuw tabblad) - AI & technologie
An AI Model That Builds 3D Worlds From a Few Photos
Fei-Fei Li's World Labs unveiled Atlas, which reconstructs and simulates 3D scenes from as few as two or three images, camera path included — early access only for now.
Read the announcementworldlabs.ai (opent in een nieuw tabblad) - Cultuur & internet
Why Time Feels Faster Than It Used To
Noema traces why the 2020s scrambled everyone's sense of time, from Boomers to Zoomers — turns out the warping is real, backed by actual psychology.
Read the piecenoemamag.com (opent in een nieuw tabblad) - Design & UX
The Way — Meditation That Lasts a Lifetime
Full disclosure: we built this one. Fresh redesign for The Way, done to make someone's first five minutes of meditation feel like an invitation.
Visit the appthewayapp.com (opent in een nieuw tabblad)
“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.”
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