This new model takes what we have learned from the Aggregation Era and finds a way to blend it with the independence enjoyed by the “sovereign writer”—or, to be appropriately expansive, let’s call it “sovereign creator.” It is, I believe, the natural model of the internet, taking advantage of the web’s massive scale and interconnectivity and... See more

If creators were once the internet’s golden children , producing original content to feed our insatiable scroll, this next phase belongs to someone else: the curator. Not necessarily the loudest voice or the most prolific, but the most discerning.

Curators are the new digital tastemakers, and their currency isn’t volume - it’s taste. Instead of... See more

Can we fix the creator economy? I think so, and I think the answer may be provided by Timothy Green's salient insight that publication is curation.