The 6 builders who will thrive in the new world
Category designers introduce the world to new ways of living, working, and playing. They are people and companies who move the world from the way it is, to the way they think it should be. And they do this by solving a problem people didn’t know they had or by reimagining a known problem, then creating the potential for a radically different soluti
... See moreCategory Pirates, Christopher Lochhead, Eddie Yoon, Katrina Kirsch, • The 22 Laws of Category Design
Creators won’t crowd out other forms of work; we’ll still have doctors, teachers, engineers. But every person will now be able to amplify knowledge, cultivate community, and earn income on the internet.
Rex Woodbury • The Creator Manifesto 🎨
This is changing rapidly across categories. As demand from creators has grown, companies have stepped in to provide solutions that help individuals go from potential to professional, often starting with a toolset before leveling up to provide a more aligned network through which creators can gain targeted distribution and develop real, lasting rela... See more
Brett Bivens • The Professionalizing Creator Class
What’s striking about the creator phenomenon is that it isn’t a vertical trend; rather, it’s a through-line that cuts across social, gaming, crypto, media, commerce. It is both the future of work, with creators forming a new class of digitally-native entrepreneurs, and the future of leisure. And while the creator phenomenon is often thought of as a... See more
Rex Woodbury • The Creator Manifesto 🎨
Who will we even consider to be creators? I see two trends having an impact here. First, the line between mainstream and digital talent will fade away: not so much through creators ‘breaking through’ into the mainstream (a narrative that already feels out-of-date), as through the opposite - talent that has (or would have) found an audience through ... See more
Jad Esber • 📺 the creator economy in 2030 and the growth of viewer-funded businesses
the people who can start things will be the major beneficiaries in the coming years. because the barrier is no longer knowledge or skills, it’s courage.
sari azout • Tweet
You have to stand in the future to create a different future. Our friend, Mike Maples Jr., calls this “backcasting.” Legendary builders must stand in the future and pull the present from the current reality to the future of their design. So an important additional job of the builder is to persuade early like-minded people to join a new movement.