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Create ownership in everything. Revenue shares in projects. Equity in micro-companies. Stakes in outcomes. The Old Game keeps you permanently renting
When individual entry is impossible, collective entry becomes optimal. When traditional financing fails, alternative structures win. The groups doing
Curation leads to expertise. Through curation, you better understand yourself, history, and unlikely connections across fields. Increasingly, we will
we’ve always been influenced in what we find beautiful or valuable or important, of course, but what’s new is the speed at which one is inundated with
You can use algorithms to surface new things. But algorithms are not nearly as good as human curators yet. Whatever pattern matching is going on insid
What am I supposed to do? Keep standards high and fail them all? That’s not an option for untenured faculty who would like to keep their jobs. I’m a t
The more upset I became, the more I felt that my sensitivity towards the paintings was the same sensitivity I held when I was the subject of the photo
To spot weird signals, you need to go down rabbit holes. Follow your intuition. And remember, pursuing rabbit holes is not always an act of procrastin
Gen AI for music has captured ~$300M in funding so far this year across several high-profile deals, the majority of which either focus on rights man
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So much value and love for the process of writing and what it does for the coherence between heart, brain, imagination, lived reality, unseen, and see
You can’t write a viral essay that says “it’s complicated and I’m not sure.” But this is the only path to truly novel insight.
Writing is a task that takes both objective and subjective intelligence. LLMs ace the objective parts the same way they ace every test; you can’t faul
🧱Alternative funding model (inspired by cooperative breweries) Get 1,000 people to chip in $1,000. Make them members/ co-owners. Put each person's
If you make a cooperative, you have to know that you can’t design them; you can only grow them, like plants. If you grow one and you do it with other
The major labels are finally facing a crucial reality: Independent music's market share keeps climbing, and controlling the infras
Hellman & Friedman's majority stake in Global Music Rights marks a watershed moment — private equity firms now control three major PROs (alo
Gen AI for music has captured ~$300M in funding so far this year across several high-profile deals, the majority of which either focus on rights man
Major music rights holders and tech companies are now expected to generate profits for a dizzying array of stakeholders sitting outside of industry bo
The major labels are finally facing a crucial reality: Independent music's market share keeps climbing, and controlling the infras
Hellman & Friedman's majority stake in Global Music Rights marks a watershed moment — private equity firms now control three major PROs (alo
Gen AI for music has captured ~$300M in funding so far this year across several high-profile deals, the majority of which either focus on rights man
What isn’t discussed as much — but is happening in parallel with equal if not greater force, is the shift in corporate music-industry power dynamics a
Music has emerged as private equity's recession-resistant darling, thanks to streaming's predictable revenue patterns and live ent
The major labels are finally facing a crucial reality: Independent music's market share keeps climbing, and controlling the infras
Hellman & Friedman's majority stake in Global Music Rights marks a watershed moment — private equity firms now control three major PROs (alo
If we give them the room to breathe, creative works can live multiple lives. The works will stay online for years, decades even. It will make someone
What they don’t see, and what we continue to experience, is that while collaborating can be hard, it’s also a more rewarding, fruitful, and uplifting
I’ve been thinking about the enduring, perhaps increasing currency of personal recommendations (practically artisanal craft now if you think about it!
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
The core problem is not that open source projects are not sharing the money received. The problem is that, in total numbers, open source is not gettin
Open source projects, the infrastructure of digital public goods, have long relied on unsustainable funding sources like Github Sponsors, Open Collect
Companies like Crossfit and Soulcycle create a sense of consistent space and ritual that inculcate deep loyalty and community among their participants
As a consumer, you subscribe to one vision or another: what’s your version of hiking out doors? What type of vibe are you about? Purist? Gorpy? High i
In the new cultural economy, the culture is the product. It is composed of practices, ideas, and discourses. Products are auxiliary, supportive, but n
honestly i'm so good at consuming content LMAO. like how do I make it my job to literally just read, watch, and listen to stuff??
Even if, for a while, I feigned hatred of rock and roll, that only made sense on the presumption of its continued reign. Much the same could be said a
To be honest, my appetite for this sort of online blowup diminishes hourly. Though I’m as prone to schadenfreude as any other media professional tryin
We can always opt out of this arrangement, of course, and live happily in meatspace, but that is precisely the point: Offline we exist by default; onl
See beyond yourself whenever possible. See what happens when you de-center your own singular life and show up for the pains and joys of other people.
hanging out as a way to reclaim time as something other than a raw ingredient to be converted into productivity
Our fates, whether we like it or not, acknowledge it or not, are intermingled. Though it is not immediately legible, we sink or swim together. Still,
So we all know that the hard boundary we place between ourselves and the world is somewhat artificial. Sure, on one level you are a separate being, di
