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House of Strauss
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House of Strauss is a personal blog at houseofstrauss.com about culture and business. Since 2023, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Nike's End of Men”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
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Most-linked posts?
- Nike's End of Men3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-09-14
- Post Will Not Go Viral2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-09-11
- Criticism Capture Is More Dangerous Than Audience Capture2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-06-12
What Hacker News says?
There is a great article [0] that has some interesting points about this: - Nike used to be very "male coded" e.g. "Be like Mike" - So much so that they were one of the only companies where men bought more clothes than women - The powers that be wanted to go after the "Adjacent Whale" (explained in the article) that was the female consumer - They ended up alienating their core customer base while competing poorly wi…
Comment linking /p/nikes-end-of-men?r=11111
on “Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout”Submitted Nike's End of Men as a story · 11 points
HN discussiondon’t buy stuff from people who hate you. https://www.houseofstrauss.com/p/nikes-end-of-men
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on “Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout”Submitted Nike Has Refused the Caitlin Clark Windfall as a story · 4 points
HN discussionWhether good or bad, the deal was the deal, and the terms of it were fulfilled. I personally am not so fond of Musk suffering from Twitter brain worms (he's neither the first nor will be the last to acquire it) but that is separate and apart from the pay issue. Audience capture: https://www.gurwinder.blog/p/the-perils-of-audience-capture or perhaps more accurately criticism capture: https://www.houseofstrauss.com/p/…
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on “Elon Musk's $56B Pay Package at Tesla Approved In Shareholder Vote”Submitted Post Will Not Go Viral as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nike's End of Men (2021) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Time 100 and Podcast Graveyard Rage Bait as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Criticism Capture Is More Dangerous Than Audience Capture as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Declining Viewship: All Sports Have the Same Problem as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Paywall Podcasts as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Post Will Not Go Viral as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sports Writers Out, Zoomer TikTokers In as a story · 1 points
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