Andrew McCluskey
@andrewmcc
Creator / Contributor at musicto
Andrew McCluskey
andrewmccluskey.com
We all know about Netflix, we all know about Spotify and other media categories, and we also know what it has done to some industries... The music industry has lost, in the digital transformation, approximately 50 percent of its overall revenue pool.
— Markus Dohle, CEO, Penguin Publishing House
Elle Griffin • No One Buys Books
Yep - nothing like living through it ;-p
How to Read Balance Sheets - Software Edition
onlycfo.io
I don’t know why we talk about walled gardens.
That seems to imply something beautiful, something worth defending.
It conjures images of beautifully maintained flowerbeds protected from the outside world. But that’s not what Facebook built, what Instagram built, what Twitter built.
They built paved, unshaded, barren hellscapes, trapped us in them,... See more
That seems to imply something beautiful, something worth defending.
It conjures images of beautifully maintained flowerbeds protected from the outside world. But that’s not what Facebook built, what Instagram built, what Twitter built.
They built paved, unshaded, barren hellscapes, trapped us in them,... See more
Why Personal Websites Matter More Than Ever
Contrary to what we might expect, the study found that the link between economic growth, as measured by GDP per capita, and life satisfaction weakened as countries became more affluent. In other words, once a certain economic threshold is reached, additional wealth does not significantly boost happiness.
Eric W. Dolan • Extensive analysis of 152 countries uncovers societal determinants of happiness
In line with the $100k per year (outside the big cities) income requirement below which money does indeed make you happier
A principle isn’t a principle until it costs you something.
- Bill Bernbach
I do like Derek’s insights :-)
Knowing where to go and what to do is the currency that, in the modern aspiration economy, makes curators more important than influencers. They guide their audience through culture by putting forward a selection of images, references, codes, product releases, or memes. Curation gives even mundane objects value by connecting them with a point of... See more
andjelicaaa.substack.com • Move Over Influencers, Here Come Curators
I'M BLOWN AWAY.
Andrej Karpathy just explained Software 3.0 at YC.
BIG IDEAS: English is coding. AI is electricity. And, build for LLMs, not just people.
Key takeaways: https://t.co/PMn7StW3Vj