This Week - Jan 02, 2015

Can a razor be the foundation of a great business? Can it lure young black men and women to Silicon Valley? Can it be a catalyst for real change?

— Tristan Walker: The Visible Man (J.J. McCorvey for Fast Company)

the kind of personality that ‘s drawn to skateboarding is the kind of personality that’s not given to sociability.

— Skateboarding As Religion (Sean Wilsey for Buzzfeed)

They know who they love and who they dislike. They are uncertain about what they think about things, and they are especially uncertain when it comes to deciding what to do about their feelings. Because of this uncertainty, they become afraid of taking the wrong action or sending the wrong signal. Their minds turn round and around with conflicting thoughts about what they should be doing while they simultaneously try to figure out what the others in their lives are really up to.

— 6—Enneagram Type Six: The Loyalist (The Enneagram Institute)

whereas I love brand strategy, I did not love the existing machines in which to do it.

— Do great work. — Wolf Howl (Heidi Hackemer for Medium)

In early 2014, I started a conversation with entrepreneur and investor James Joaquin about how to best continue the 'world positive' investing that we started with Obvious Corp. We began with the shared belief that great investment returns will be created by startups building scalable solutions to big world challenges. In contrast, we found that most traditional investors held the opposite view: that ‘doing good’ would somehow compromise financial performance and returns. So we hatched a plan…start our own fund.

— It’s Obvious. Again. (Ev Williams for Medium)