After stumbling across a blog post about how big brand kitchen products and appliances are mostly just hollow shells with little to no integrity, I found that same blogger/journalist has a robust list of brands that haven’t gone the way of capital sell-outs that goes way beyond kitchen utensils.
It’s worth taking a look at the list as well as the articles. The articles are conversational, but with lots of links to the source material.
I also recently discovered this website through a different site. One criticism I noticed and have seen possibly verified is that many (all?) of the articles are at least AI edited, and possibly whole-cloth written. Also, the author works for Palantir.
I haven’t had enough time to go through any of the articles and follow up on the sources to see if they’re still factually accurate or not, has anyone else verified any of the articles or their recommendations?
Zojirushi is legitimately great. Heritage steel also makes good quality pans at reasonable prices.
The list is too big to know everything, but I did find Thursday boots an odd inclusion because there was talk of them cutting corners on their materials.
I can easily believe the website was generated based off high ranking buyitforlife posts because it’s just too big and too unknown to be maintained legitimately.
Okay, so suppose you read an article about a Palantir employee who used AI to make a list of brands that people consider high quality. What would be the next line you would expect the article to say?
My guess is this is going to be a hit list for private equity. Brand reputation is a form of capital to be extracted.