Andrew Wallace
@amwall
Andrew Wallace
This is the intentional design of our current commercialized media ecosystem: to shift our time, attention, experiences, and very humanity from the real world to the digital world. Since the introduction of the television, local civic life has been fighting to survive.
Presser and Duggan on synthetic connection https://open.substack.com/pub/connectivetissue/p/from-organic-community-to-synthetic?r=1i623&utm_medium=ios
Adult service years for high school grads.
Political divide based on income.
What is less well understood is the power of bodies acting as ‘Buyers of First Resort’ – where some entity, public or private, helps to establish the first market for a good or service before it has reached the stage where it could support a customer base of its own.
Neil Hacker • Buyers of first resort - Works in Progress
From Works in Progress post on getting innovative products off the ground — first buyers fill the space between good ideas and future markets.
