Lisa Grimm

Independent internet-native creators leverage the internet’s frictionless content creation and distribution, but they’re still trapped by traditional business models like subscriptions and advertising.

A subscription model is based on the promise of the production of future gated content. A publication or creator is paid to continue production, not ... See more

Great artists don’t study art history to figure out what art to create. Great founders don’t analyze the market to figure out what product to build.

Community is internet-native media. Yet the vast majority of creators and publications are still built around the value of content . It’s no wonder why today’s digital media businesses are deeply broken.

The latter is, to be clear, a worthwhile goal — I’d also love to see more people at ease in their kitchens, unburdened by the fallacy that a meal has to be perfect and/or Instagram-pretty to be legitimate.

While it is true that the amount of marketing and publicity publishers invest in books varies, it is also true that authors must be active participants in their book promotion. That will not change because the most effective way for authors to reach readers is through building their audience.

Nikhil Krishnan, a philosopher who invokes Jaffrey as he remembers his own education in cooking and thinking, recalls finding in recipes proof of a “a fall from a condition of organic wholeness.” Cookbooks signal a derivative, disconnected world where no one absorbs skills naturally.

Charging directly > Ads

While platforms that depend on ads must harvest attention any way they can, platforms that depend on people’s willingness to pay have to generate trust and value.

Directly charging creates high expectations from our customers and in aspiring to meet those expectations, we are held accountable to deliver a product that ... See more

Code is cheap. Money now chases utility wrapped in taste, function sculpted with beautiful form, and technology framed in artistry.

But what exactly is taste? The dictionary says it’s the ability to discern what is of good quality or of a high aesthetic standard . But who sets that standard? Taste may be subjective, but within a given culture or co... See more

When content production and distribution is infinite, the important aspect is its primary function in crafting and proliferating culture*.* In other words, the value of content today comes primarily from its use in cultural production.