Patrick Fogarty
@patrickfogarty.bsky.social
Corporate retail strategist. Currently researching and fascinated by the concepts of Discovery and how humans discover new ideas, interests, brands + products. Based in Minneapolis after 2 years in Atlanta and 8 years in Seattle.
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Hello Blue Sky! Thought I’d introduce myself. I’m Patrick.
My professional interests: consumer behavior, human-centered design, + innovation ecosystems
Personally into cultural trends + global influences, health + wellness, travel, + thoughtful interiors
If these topics resonate, let’s connect!
My professional interests: consumer behavior, human-centered design, + innovation ecosystems
Personally into cultural trends + global influences, health + wellness, travel, + thoughtful interiors
If these topics resonate, let’s connect!
Reposted by Patrick Fogarty
Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑
August 31, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑
Slack is down at work today and I feel like I truly, fully understand peace.
February 26, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Slack is down at work today and I feel like I truly, fully understand peace.
Do you tip your chiropractor? Not urgent, I made my appointment via a Square-based platform, so just mentally preparing for the inevitable.
February 2, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Do you tip your chiropractor? Not urgent, I made my appointment via a Square-based platform, so just mentally preparing for the inevitable.
Merry Christmas to all (except retailers who place hard to remove price stickers directly on products)!!!
December 25, 2024 at 4:50 PM
Merry Christmas to all (except retailers who place hard to remove price stickers directly on products)!!!
Perfect start to Christmas: date night with my great-grandma 🥰🎄🎁
December 22, 2024 at 12:29 AM
Perfect start to Christmas: date night with my great-grandma 🥰🎄🎁
Instacart delivery drivers who accept orders from Costco should be required by LAW to have a cart. 3 trips between lobby and condo door is utterly painful 🥲🤪
December 20, 2024 at 8:46 PM
Instacart delivery drivers who accept orders from Costco should be required by LAW to have a cart. 3 trips between lobby and condo door is utterly painful 🥲🤪
Reposted by Patrick Fogarty
I think after GenZ we should maybe hold off on any new slang. Can't be too careful. Just a short moratorium while we figure out what went wrong there
December 17, 2024 at 5:35 AM
I think after GenZ we should maybe hold off on any new slang. Can't be too careful. Just a short moratorium while we figure out what went wrong there
I realized that, until today, I had not thought about Marjorie Taylor Greene in at least 30 days, since I deactivated my account on X. That’s a really beautiful thing. 🥲
December 14, 2024 at 10:07 PM
I realized that, until today, I had not thought about Marjorie Taylor Greene in at least 30 days, since I deactivated my account on X. That’s a really beautiful thing. 🥲
Economic impact of banning TikTok in the US will be painful for many. $35B + in contributions to the GDP, largely driven by SMB. Hundreds of thousands of jobs. Creators + trends that drive consumer spending. It’s not just “entertainment”, it’s a digital marketplace and it’s fueling our economy.
TikTok loses bid for emergency halt to looming US ‘divest or ban’ law
https://www.ft.com/content/ea5668c8-6748-4165-aec6-d799ab139bd2
https://www.ft.com/content/ea5668c8-6748-4165-aec6-d799ab139bd2
TikTok loses bid for emergency halt to looming US ‘divest or ban’ law
Fate of the popular ByteDance-owned app now will be decided by the Supreme Court — or Donald Trump
www.ft.com
December 14, 2024 at 9:13 PM
Economic impact of banning TikTok in the US will be painful for many. $35B + in contributions to the GDP, largely driven by SMB. Hundreds of thousands of jobs. Creators + trends that drive consumer spending. It’s not just “entertainment”, it’s a digital marketplace and it’s fueling our economy.
Netflix + Mastercard are doubling down on experiential. 60% of consumers are actively saving to indulge in experiences that fuel their passions. We’re moving towards a future where the line between entertainment, shopping, storytelling, + culture are completely blurred.
variety.com/2024/digital...
variety.com/2024/digital...
Netflix, Mastercard Team to Offer Cardholders Perks for Streamer’s Live, In-Person Experiences
Mastercard cardholders will get exclusive perks for Netflix's live experiences like 'Stranger Things: The First Shadow' based on popular shows.
variety.com
December 12, 2024 at 7:38 PM
Netflix + Mastercard are doubling down on experiential. 60% of consumers are actively saving to indulge in experiences that fuel their passions. We’re moving towards a future where the line between entertainment, shopping, storytelling, + culture are completely blurred.
variety.com/2024/digital...
variety.com/2024/digital...
Reposted by Patrick Fogarty
Year in Review 2024! 👀 Instagram is dead to us... so what's next for creatives? https://buff.ly/3Q6SfIw
December 10, 2024 at 9:03 AM
Year in Review 2024! 👀 Instagram is dead to us... so what's next for creatives? https://buff.ly/3Q6SfIw
IG is unusable.
- notifications UX doesn’t make sense nor provide value
- tap to react doesn’t work, requiring 2-3 taps to finally function
- feed is, at minimum, 75% sponsored, 25% accounts I follow
- engagement has cratered (probably b/c my friends and family aren’t shown my posts in their feed)
- notifications UX doesn’t make sense nor provide value
- tap to react doesn’t work, requiring 2-3 taps to finally function
- feed is, at minimum, 75% sponsored, 25% accounts I follow
- engagement has cratered (probably b/c my friends and family aren’t shown my posts in their feed)
December 11, 2024 at 2:46 AM
IG is unusable.
- notifications UX doesn’t make sense nor provide value
- tap to react doesn’t work, requiring 2-3 taps to finally function
- feed is, at minimum, 75% sponsored, 25% accounts I follow
- engagement has cratered (probably b/c my friends and family aren’t shown my posts in their feed)
- notifications UX doesn’t make sense nor provide value
- tap to react doesn’t work, requiring 2-3 taps to finally function
- feed is, at minimum, 75% sponsored, 25% accounts I follow
- engagement has cratered (probably b/c my friends and family aren’t shown my posts in their feed)
Reposted by Patrick Fogarty
people say “you need to start living in the real world” but they forget that the real world includes lupines and lightning bugs and ginger beer and starlight and sea coasts and Renoir paintings and Rachmaninoff’s piano concertos and fog banks and foxes playing in snow.
December 5, 2024 at 3:45 PM
people say “you need to start living in the real world” but they forget that the real world includes lupines and lightning bugs and ginger beer and starlight and sea coasts and Renoir paintings and Rachmaninoff’s piano concertos and fog banks and foxes playing in snow.
Spotify’s personalization engine doesn’t operate the way it used to. Instead of delivering new finds and relevant recommendations, it is a loop of resurfaced music I liked earlier this year, or two years ago. For that reason, Spotify Wrapped is basically a copy/paste of last year, for me.
Spotify users are disappointed by an underwhelming Wrapped this year
Spotify users are disappointed by an underwhelming Wrapped this year
After weeks of anticipation, some Spotify users are left underwhelmed by the streamer’s personalized year-in-review feature, Spotify Wrapped — with many even going so far as to call it “boring” or a “flop.” Chief among the complaints are that Spotify…
tcrn.ch
December 4, 2024 at 7:40 PM
Spotify’s personalization engine doesn’t operate the way it used to. Instead of delivering new finds and relevant recommendations, it is a loop of resurfaced music I liked earlier this year, or two years ago. For that reason, Spotify Wrapped is basically a copy/paste of last year, for me.
December is my Super Bowl for thrifting and vintage markets, with folks replacing and donating to make room for their Black Friday & Cyber Monday hauls. If you’re in Minneapolis here are my favorite spots:
- wild vintage collective
- E’s emporium
- The cat and the cobra
- Salvation Army North Loop
- wild vintage collective
- E’s emporium
- The cat and the cobra
- Salvation Army North Loop
December 3, 2024 at 3:06 PM
December is my Super Bowl for thrifting and vintage markets, with folks replacing and donating to make room for their Black Friday & Cyber Monday hauls. If you’re in Minneapolis here are my favorite spots:
- wild vintage collective
- E’s emporium
- The cat and the cobra
- Salvation Army North Loop
- wild vintage collective
- E’s emporium
- The cat and the cobra
- Salvation Army North Loop
Sean Kim, former TikTok Head of Product, named CEO of AI-powered video app, Triller. Triller is interesting to me - their suite of advanced AI tools to create + edit videos, specific content challenges, creator marketplace, enhanced content analytics, etc. feels like it’ll resonate with creators.
December 3, 2024 at 1:16 AM
Sean Kim, former TikTok Head of Product, named CEO of AI-powered video app, Triller. Triller is interesting to me - their suite of advanced AI tools to create + edit videos, specific content challenges, creator marketplace, enhanced content analytics, etc. feels like it’ll resonate with creators.
Quick, what do y’all watch when you finish the absolute classic December movie, The Holiday? Similar energy, same type of vibe
December 2, 2024 at 3:37 AM
Quick, what do y’all watch when you finish the absolute classic December movie, The Holiday? Similar energy, same type of vibe
Feeling creative + hiding from the cold, I took bits from ~30 of my GenAI illustrations to create a composite image loosely influenced by a CoBrA, Dadaism + Futurism artistic style. My take on narrative abstraction with a playful, surrealist edge. This was for fun, but I’d love critiques. ;) #AIArt
December 1, 2024 at 8:34 PM
Feeling creative + hiding from the cold, I took bits from ~30 of my GenAI illustrations to create a composite image loosely influenced by a CoBrA, Dadaism + Futurism artistic style. My take on narrative abstraction with a playful, surrealist edge. This was for fun, but I’d love critiques. ;) #AIArt
“While technology and discovering businesses online will continue to be crucial, after COVID we have in fact seen a shift in younger consumers’ behaviors as they desire more IRL, human connections”
What’s more, shopping small is a priority for Gen Z + Millennials, at least for 55% of respondents.
What’s more, shopping small is a priority for Gen Z + Millennials, at least for 55% of respondents.
For Gen Z, millennial consumers, IRL shopping still beats social media. “Amex’s study finds that 85% of consumers overall say they’re “likely” to “shop small” this year, which is an increase of 11 points over the past decade.” #retail #local #shop #bf www.fastcompany.com/91230989/gen...
How do Gen Z and millennials discover new stores and brands? By just walking around, it turns out
A new survey from Amex reveals that proximity may play a bigger role than social media when it comes to attracting younger consumers.
www.fastcompany.com
November 30, 2024 at 9:43 PM
“While technology and discovering businesses online will continue to be crucial, after COVID we have in fact seen a shift in younger consumers’ behaviors as they desire more IRL, human connections”
What’s more, shopping small is a priority for Gen Z + Millennials, at least for 55% of respondents.
What’s more, shopping small is a priority for Gen Z + Millennials, at least for 55% of respondents.
My favorite game-changing prompt for ChatGPT? “Ask me a series of questions that will allow you to operate better and return stronger outputs.”
10 minutes spent responding and a noticeable improvement in output.
10 minutes spent responding and a noticeable improvement in output.
November 28, 2024 at 1:10 AM
My favorite game-changing prompt for ChatGPT? “Ask me a series of questions that will allow you to operate better and return stronger outputs.”
10 minutes spent responding and a noticeable improvement in output.
10 minutes spent responding and a noticeable improvement in output.
This growing trend of #CozyTech really resonates with me. Products like Phillips Hue, the Pura diffuser, Hatch Restore, make my life feel calmer and bring me a sense of balance. I’m curious to see how this trend extends to mobile gaming, AI companions, software.
www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...
www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...
The Fantasy of Cozy Tech
From the “cozy gaming” trend to a new generation of A.I. companions, our devices are trying to swathe us in a digital and physical cocoon.
www.newyorker.com
November 27, 2024 at 3:01 PM
This growing trend of #CozyTech really resonates with me. Products like Phillips Hue, the Pura diffuser, Hatch Restore, make my life feel calmer and bring me a sense of balance. I’m curious to see how this trend extends to mobile gaming, AI companions, software.
www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...
www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...
A ‘disrupter,’ or any startup, really, ideally seeks to solve a problem or meet an unmet consumer need. We don’t need more books; we need more quality books—well-written and thought-provoking.
Churning out 8,000 books using AI is the wrong solution to the wrong problem.
Churning out 8,000 books using AI is the wrong solution to the wrong problem.
1. We need a lot of things, but this “disruption” isn’t one of them.
2. This is a vanity press, and fuck vanity presses.
3. Fuck this. Looking forward to seeing it crash and burn.
2. This is a vanity press, and fuck vanity presses.
3. Fuck this. Looking forward to seeing it crash and burn.
November 25, 2024 at 3:22 PM
A ‘disrupter,’ or any startup, really, ideally seeks to solve a problem or meet an unmet consumer need. We don’t need more books; we need more quality books—well-written and thought-provoking.
Churning out 8,000 books using AI is the wrong solution to the wrong problem.
Churning out 8,000 books using AI is the wrong solution to the wrong problem.
At the Vogue Business Future of Shopping Summit, leaders emphasized the rise of personalized experiences + AI in retail. My takeaways: stay true to strategy, engage communities, + blend online/offline experiences. Future of shopping is hybrid + tech-integrated
www.voguebusiness.com/story/events...
www.voguebusiness.com/story/events...
What we learnt at the Vogue Business Future of Shopping Summit
The event, held at The Bowery Hotel in New York, brought together retail and brand leaders and disruptors to discuss where shopping is headed in 2025.
www.voguebusiness.com
November 24, 2024 at 7:33 PM
At the Vogue Business Future of Shopping Summit, leaders emphasized the rise of personalized experiences + AI in retail. My takeaways: stay true to strategy, engage communities, + blend online/offline experiences. Future of shopping is hybrid + tech-integrated
www.voguebusiness.com/story/events...
www.voguebusiness.com/story/events...
I love a good book - read a lot of ‘em in fact. But for some reason my feed here is almost exclusively obscure posts about books or authors. It’s not necessarily irritating, but I’d love my algo to deliver a more diverse set of topics 🤪
November 23, 2024 at 6:16 PM
I love a good book - read a lot of ‘em in fact. But for some reason my feed here is almost exclusively obscure posts about books or authors. It’s not necessarily irritating, but I’d love my algo to deliver a more diverse set of topics 🤪
Hello Blue Sky! Thought I’d introduce myself. I’m Patrick.
My professional interests: consumer behavior, human-centered design, + innovation ecosystems
Personally into cultural trends + global influences, health + wellness, travel, + thoughtful interiors
If these topics resonate, let’s connect!
My professional interests: consumer behavior, human-centered design, + innovation ecosystems
Personally into cultural trends + global influences, health + wellness, travel, + thoughtful interiors
If these topics resonate, let’s connect!
November 23, 2024 at 2:32 AM
Hello Blue Sky! Thought I’d introduce myself. I’m Patrick.
My professional interests: consumer behavior, human-centered design, + innovation ecosystems
Personally into cultural trends + global influences, health + wellness, travel, + thoughtful interiors
If these topics resonate, let’s connect!
My professional interests: consumer behavior, human-centered design, + innovation ecosystems
Personally into cultural trends + global influences, health + wellness, travel, + thoughtful interiors
If these topics resonate, let’s connect!