Stop Funding Problems Start Fueling Proven Strengths

Stop Funding Problems Start Fueling Proven Strengths

I’ve built and sold companies, scaled brands fast, and learned a hard lesson: throwing money at problems doesn’t fix them. It just hides them until the cash runs dry. My stance is simple. Capital should amplify what already works, not patch what’s broken. That mindset saves founders, agencies, and investors from painful, slow failures disguised…

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August Sander’s Enormous Attempt to Capture a Lost World

August Sander’s Enormous Attempt to Capture a Lost World

Still, objectivity is never really objective, and the camera’s putatively clinical perspective had long been used by eugenicists to peddle hateful pseudoscience about the skull sizes and brow shapes of “criminal types” and so-called lesser races. (This history is largely absent from Yale’s admirable just-the-art, ma’am, presentation, curated by Judy Ditner.) Yet Sander’s pictures rarely…

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The Fear Driving “Well, I’ll Let You Go” and “Othello”

The Fear Driving “Well, I’ll Let You Go” and “Othello”

Like the recent Broadway play “Little Bear Ridge Road,” “Well, I’ll Let You Go” is a portrait of people living in isolation, their walls up—a situation ripe for an explosion. Refreshingly, the play doesn’t cheat its way toward its climax, and instead arrives at something simpler and more affecting: the audience learns what happened to…

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Margot Robbie Meets the Writer Behind London’s Buzziest Play

Margot Robbie Meets the Writer Behind London’s Buzziest Play

Set in Tudor England, against the backdrop of Anne Boleyn’s arrest, 1536 has become the runaway, must-see show of the year. Since its award-winning, sold-out run at the Almeida in 2025, the play—penned by breakout playwright and screenwriter Ava Pickett and directed by Lyndsey Turner—has picked up a new producer in Margot Robbie, been transferred…

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Trainer Experts Told Me What Styles Will Dominate This Summer—I Was Genuinely Surprised

Trainer Experts Told Me What Styles Will Dominate This Summer—I Was Genuinely Surprised

Trainers have always held a polarising place in fashion. The functional shoe first originated in sporting grounds and gym floors before crossing over into street style uniforms in the latter half of the 20th Century. Unlike other staples that are native to these environments—say leggings, crop tops and emotional support water bottles—trainers are unique in…

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