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Non-Fungible Taylor Swift – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
- That’s why I loved her decision to pull out of Spotify. Taylor Swift is not some sort of Luddite futilely standing against the forces of modernity; rather, she is a highly differentiated content creator capturing the immense value she is creating instead of ceding it to an aggregator that treats every piece of content the same.
from Differentiation and Value Capture in the Internet Age by Ben Thompson
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- One of the benefits of producing consistent creative work is that it comes with a narrative network effect: The more people who know and love the story of an object, the stronger the tie to that object becomes. For a brand like MSCHF, success might not always come from money—sometimes, it comes from products that reinforce how they want to articula... See more
from The Art of Scaling Taste by Evan Armstrong
You Can Handle the Post-Truth: A Pocket Guide to the Surreal Internet
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