I am not proposing a return to the Stone Age. My intent is not reactionary, nor even conservative, but simply subversive. It seems that the utopian imagination is trapped, like capitalism and industrialism and the human population, in a one-way future consisting only of growth. All I'm trying to do is figure out how to put a pig on the tracks. — Ur... See more
What I’m proposing asks you to give up the possibility of earning more than you are owed, to instead find satisfaction in reaping exactly what you’ve sown.
To treat the business as an ongoing, regenerative space of offering value and support. To receive returns based on your labor, your contributions, and to center collective success over individua... See more
To start to work toward a sustainable media ecosystem, you must start with the media businesses themselves. These businesses face a daunting task of sorting out competing interests of audiences, advertisers and platforms. Time and again, we have seen platforms make decisions in their own interests that have cascading effects on publishers.
We’re moving out of the era of platforms owning people and into an era of people owning platforms—an era in which creators will rightfully demand more ownership, and more say over their relationships with their communities.
I think ownership is overrated - there is a certain kind of person who sees something and whose first reaction is "i want to own it", ownership as a means to accrue value leads to a community of vultures; instead of ownership, we should think about "contribution" as the primitive
i want to deoptimize my brain. make it slower, get distracted. always existing on the fringe and whatever comes out is something outside of the objectives of this process at all. as if my processes will exist to alleviate the anxiety of having an objective at all