internet culture
i think people need to deeply examine what MSCHF has done right and wrong if they want to take this approach this time around - killers at the attention playbook but not really able to gain any meaningful network effects for value
x.comOnce front-running other participants in financial markets or cultural production becomes a common strategy, trends become inefficiencies – temporary blips of difference or spikes in value that are bound for correction. Being early as a meta is replaced by catching people offsides. Betting on the return to the mean.
The Nemesis Guide to Being Early *Summer ‘24 Edition*
“The culture” as a phrase, has been unfortunately hijacked by the artistic class to mean the byproducts of their creativity. But this is an incomplete picture of our culture. Culture is the difference between car-centricity and walkable neighborhoods. Culture is the values we place on our food system. Culture is the quality of our public goods and... See more
Reggie James • Political Expectations
Like newsletters, what’s said in podcasts is non-indexed, non-optimized, and non-gamified. It’s a more forgiving space for communication than the internet at large.
Dark forests like newsletters and podcasts are growing areas of activity. As are other dark forests, like Slack channels, private Instagrams, invite-only message boards, text groups,... See more
Dark forests like newsletters and podcasts are growing areas of activity. As are other dark forests, like Slack channels, private Instagrams, invite-only message boards, text groups,... See more
Yancey Strickler • The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet
idk if this is really a ‘dark forest’ — more a gated community that means there is trust to share. the commons are too unruly to trust/are feared
I use technology in order to hate it more properly. –Nam June Paik https://t.co/8lJQifwyqD
Serendipity, that essential urban amenity, requires friction: If you never stop moving, and if everyone gets the hell out of your way, you’re less likely to have any unexpected encounter, although you will check off your to-do list more quickly. Paradoxically, the internet, which has eliminated so much friction from the physical world, has also... See more