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No Dumb Ideas

No Dumb Ideas is a newsletter where I take nonsensical, and possibly brilliant, business ideas and follow them through to their logical conclusion

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The big idea: A cartel for freelancers

Like everyone else, I’m a little anxious about the constant predictions that AI will reshape the economy as we know it. Whatever the long-term equilibrium is, there’s one part of the economy where the impact is already visible: the freelanc...

3 months ago
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The big idea: A restaurant that charges for the table

I recently listened to Bart Hutchins’ interview on Odd Lots about his restaurant Butterworths. It’s a great conversation, but the part that really stuck with me was the French fries:

I think [French fries are] on the menu right now for t...

3 months ago
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The big idea: Solve New York’s deficit with naming rights

If you’ve ever walked through Central Park, you may have noticed that some of the benches have plaques. These plaques are purchased as part of the Adopt A Bench program, one of the many ways that Central Park self-funds its operations. It’s...

4 months ago
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The big idea: Pay to skip annoying ads

I spent most of last week watching the first season of The Pitt. It hit me around hour 6 that I was watching a lot of ads — by my count, about 16 per hour-long episode.

It wasn’t always this way.

In the early streaming days, ad-free view...

4 months ago
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The big idea: Spread out New Year’s resolutions

Every year, dozens of newspapers publish the exact same story about how nobody keeps their New Year’s resolutions.

It seems like resolutions should work. Adjacent ideas like Dry January work by creating a social permission structure for a...

5 months ago
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