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The Hotpot | April 2026 | By Lisanne 14.4 Imagine this: You are stranded along a deserted highway in the middle of a heatwave in July. Your car is…
The Hotpot | By Lisanne 12.4 Spotify says it wants to give “a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art”. But according to Spotify's Loud &…
The Hotpot | April 2026 | By Lisanne 10.4 The traditional way of doing marketing used to be the battle for "eyeballs". This model of interruption. You buy the…
How Triangl and Steven Bartlett Turned ‘Impossible’ Into Inevitable.
Perfectionism can be an expensive way to hide from the work that matters.
The Hotpot | March 2026 | By Lisanne 31.3 I love the lightning bolt---that one-of-a-kind idea no one has ever seen. Netflix shifted from DVDs to streaming. Airbnb turned…
The Hotpot | March 2026 | By Lisanne 29.3 The manosphere figures who are dominating the internet right now have essentially cracked a code. They’ve built businesses that don’t…