Jerod Morris

The cornerstone of a Weird Internet Career is that you a) make a thing on the internet that people value and b) provide a way to convert that value into money. (If you have the first but not the second, it’s not a career, at least not yet. If you have the second but not the first, well, you probably don’t have much in the way of career yet either.)

5) Yes, it’s still early 

• Personal Data Broker

• The Red World: Technology will allow tiny businesses to tap into the vast reservoirs of information, skills, and financing.

The expansion of Internet access coincides with fifteen other trends over time, and separating them is very difficult.

To build community you need to listen to what your community is not only saying, but what they are doing. What people say can be a slippery slope to rely on. What people do is safer to place bets on.

• Smarter brainstorming

It’s not about whether any particular platform is centralized, or who owns how much of what. It’s about the fact that the data is open, that builders and users have choice, and that they’ll choose the platforms that extract less and give them more ownership.

• 61% of the over 2000 content entrepreneurs surveyed experienced burnout in 2021.