How to Be a Supercommunicator | Charles Duhigg
Building and monetizing a niche business podcast while preserving creative freedom, scarcity, and avoiding growth-for-growth’s-sake incentives.
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I think there's a bit of a cold start.
If you were to propose going and creating an acquired for sports, you would, the sort of risk I guess we took, we didn't think about it as risk at the time because it was just a hobby, was you're looking at years of no or little monetization. Right. Because it's going to take a long time to build up the
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Algorithmic media incentivizes simplistic discourse, but people remain capable of complexity and compassion in the offline, real world.
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And all I can say is like I think we gotta fight that and that something you can what great is you can actually do that yourself You can fight and like not be a participant in that Sometimes I wonder though well not wonder I think that it is I more of a cynic I think that it ends up being a losing battle because even the first question, right? You
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First off, I’m pretty proud of Stratechery’s record over the last couple of years. When it comes to the big companies I traditionally cover I think I’ve been pretty sharp, including sketching out their relative strengths/opportunities/risks in AI [1], calling out Apple’s strategy pre-Apple... See more
Ben Thompsonx.com
Parallels between civilizations and companies, emphasizing founders’ creative leadership in meeting challenges and sustaining opportunity.
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They're talking about civilizations. I think with you and I, obviously, the lessons for companies jumps off the page. This is really why there's always more opportunity. You know, there's always room for a new company, a new startup, because on one point, we are all agreed civilizations begin, flourish, decline, and disappear.
Companies begin,
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Building a business podcast sustainably: slow monetization, leveraging day jobs, rejecting scale, and preserving creative freedom and quality.
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That's one. I think there's a bit of a cold start. If you were to propose going and creating an acquired for sports, you would, the sort of risk I guess we took, we didn't think about it as risk at the time because it was just a hobby, was you're looking at years of no or little monetization. Right. Because it's going to take a long time to build
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