Netflix’s Potential Podcast Fallacy

Email is good for maintaining a direct relationship between readers and writers, but it kinda sucks as a place to read. When I’m checking my inbox I’m in a mode where I want to bat away everything as quickly as possible in order to get to inbox zero. I’m psychologically in a state where everything feels like a chore. Putting great writing there fro... See more

What if we made a Netflix Doc about Sales?(Netflix if you're watching please commission us)

Email today is now less a communications medium than a communications compile target. It’s a clearinghouse technology. It’s where conversations-of-record go, where identity verification happens, where service alerts accumulate, and perhaps most importantly for publishers, where push-delivered longform content goes by default. It is distributed and ... See more

Everyone’s familiar with the Netflix ($NFLX) of today, the company with over 220 million subscribers. But that didn’t happen over night.  The “death” of Netflix was predicted many times, first in late 2002, not long after its IPO. Walmart was entering the DVD-by-mail business, and who could ever compete with the all-powerful Wal-Mart?... ... See more