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We are living through the emergence of a new business category that doesn’t even have a name yet, but which I believe will become an important part of our digital lives: online communities at the intersection of content curation and knowledge management.

Not to be Captain Obvious, but isn’t it just trust? People trust other people, particularly those with unique taste or who are obsessives about particular topics. Trying to scale that with faceless institutional brands was always going to be hard. And then you mix in the normal perverse incentives of the internet. To me, there are a couple kinds of... See more

I think a lot of the value of great reporting or great content online comes from the personality or the perspective. It’s the writers that I keep coming back to over and over and over again on a topic and sure, maybe GPT-4 is going to be able to mimic the ideas well enough that it’s hard to tease them apart. But in general, there are either source

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