Frank Hecker

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Meet Zed – The Fast, Collaborative Code Editor.

zed.dev zed.dev

Perhaps worth looking at if I do code development outside a data science context.

The Dawn of Liquid Content

Ryan Khurana genarrative.substack.com

The creator economy

Innovative new Sublime app: A must-have for creatives

mindmappingsoftwareblog.com

First review I’ve seen of Sublime app.

Power Laws in Culture

Doug Shapiro dougshapiro.medium.com

Log-normal is the new normal

Good overview of creator economy dynamics marred by uncritical acceptance of power-law distributions that are probably log-normal.

File under “probably log-normal”. See for example the deviation from straight log-lines in the graphs.

Imagine spending years in an apartment, making it your home. You pay rent on time, maintain the space beautifully, and build a community with your neighbors. Then one day, without warning or input from tenants, the building is sold to a new owner; a corporate holding company who begins raising the rent and changing the rules.

For hundreds of thousan... See more

Austin Robey • No Platform Landlords

The creator economy

Just a moment...

papers.ssrn.com

The creator economy

Maybe related to a hypothesized increase in inequality in creator economy platforms as the amount of money flowing through such platforms increases.

What are some good sources of comprehensive data on possibly log-normal behavior in culture and entertainment? Maybe box-office figures?

The Effect: An Introduction to Research Design and Causality | The Effect

theeffectbook.net

Might be a good source of information if/when I do some causal inference.

Explorations of Style

explorationsofstyle.com