8/19/26 - there will never be any new products ever again
I read some stuff recently about supply chain management, and it got me thinking: no one who's working in all the industries that have to do with products are going to have to truly be original, right? I mean, people in marketing, sales, advertising, and supply chain management - isn't it really just a recycling program of ideas at this point? Surely throughout all of history, we've uncovered all the potential human motivations. There must be maybe a hundred of them, max. Where else is there to go? I remember feeling this when I worked in marketing for four years in my early twenties. It was then that I knew I craved novelty too much to be good at that job. In marketing, you're not reinventing the wheel. You're plugging customers into a pre-existing framework of who they are and what they want. And with AI these days, I'm sure that entire process has been put into hyperdrive. AI-driven marketing can see any customer desire coming from a mile away. It's the r...
