June 27, 2026
PERFORMANCE
[Branding] In Defense of Softness: Brands, Communication, and the End of Certainty as Authority
Something is breaking down inside the optimization economy, and the brands that notice it first will have access to territory that the next generation of performance tools can’t reach. Here’s a contradiction worth considering: at the precise moment when self-improvement infrastructure has never been more capable—when you can track your sleep cycles, your heart rate […]