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The subscription model means content providers are paid regularly no matter the quality and quantity of the product. Makes sense – being paid on a reg
What tradition or practice from another culture or era do you think we should widely adopt?I wish patronage were widely adopted as an explicit social
Media and Machines.
An idea cannot truly go mainstream until it’s wrapped in a “meme” that compels people to recognize, understand, share, and invest time in it.
Memes may dominate how we communicate online, but in the last few years, their rapid spread has also necessitated the birth of a parallel, shadow ecos
Media and Machines.
Rob and I had to face the truth: Matter is a great product—3x App of the Day, with many thousands of passionate users—but it isn’t the next Duolingo.
When the institutions are optimized to fund the legible thing and the individuals are optimized to build the legible thing, the identity of the founde
🧱Alternative funding model (inspired by cooperative breweries) Get 1,000 people to chip in $1,000. Make them members/ co-owners. Put each person's
If you make a cooperative, you have to know that you can’t design them; you can only grow them, like plants. If you grow one and you do it with other
编程这项工作非常适合 AI 增强或替代,原因如下:1/ 编码本质上要求工程师将问题分解成更小、更易管理的任务;2/ 有大量现有的训练数据;3/ 任务需要判断力和基于规则的工作相结合;4/ 解决方案利用可组合的模块(比如开源软件库等);5/ 在某些情况下,工作成果可以通过经验测试其正确性。这意味着可靠
AI is aggregated human intelligence. So it’s better to call it collective intelligence than artificial intelligence. Emphasizing the collectivity (som
Easier, then, to strip the art of these larger contexts and references from the art, which conveniently also makes it easier to sell.
Before the internet demanded our attention 24/7, television, radio, and lifestyle magazines had a very specific grip on the zeitgeist, combing youth c
Curation leads to expertise. Through curation, you better understand yourself, history, and unlikely connections across fields. Increasingly, we will
we’ve always been influenced in what we find beautiful or valuable or important, of course, but what’s new is the speed at which one is inundated with
You can use algorithms to surface new things. But algorithms are not nearly as good as human curators yet. Whatever pattern matching is going on insid
Create ownership in everything. Revenue shares in projects. Equity in micro-companies. Stakes in outcomes. The Old Game keeps you permanently renting
When individual entry is impossible, collective entry becomes optimal. When traditional financing fails, alternative structures win. The groups doing
ubiquitous connectivity and our media environments naturally lend themselves toward an influencer-and-fandom dynamic. If the system is built to inspir
In the new cultural economy, the culture is the product. It is composed of practices, ideas, and discourses. Products are auxiliary, supportive, but n
…and look. I think that it is perfectly reasonable for people to be normal music fans and to have a normal relationship to music. But…if you want to g
1. It doesn’t have to be new. It just has to be fresh. The toy brick was invented (and patented) by British toymaker, Hilary Fisher Page in the 195
90% of Claude’s code is now written by AI, and this has completely transformed how they build products. The bottlenecks have shifted from engineering
hottest companies in Silicon Valley, famous for one thing: they made an extremely boring product extremely beloved. He speaks about how «technology ma
By yielding a generational wealth creation opportunity that was a strange hybrid of a lottery jackpot and self-made fortune, crypto created an ideolog
For example, it was 30 years after the invention of film that someone first tried telling stories with it — before that, film was mainly used as a dem
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How do you explain the web to people who have never used it? You make it as simple and as accessible as possible.
Amy Hoy, in How the Blog Broke the Web, describes the downfall of the digital gardens that once grew across the landscape of the web. It is a history
In the early days of the internet, the Web’s surface was relatively smooth and its “gravitational force” was weak. You could random walk without getti
Among the troubadours, there was a different class of people, called knowms. Thecouncil was told that the knowms had some special skills that may help
information becomes knowledge only through processes of verification and critical analysis.
This is what knowledge decay looks like. Not burning libraries, but a slow, structural dissolution of the connections between claims and their sources
n this sense, Labubus do seem to be a defining moment of 2020s culture. For those interested in moving culture away from fads such as these, resistanc
The stasis debate is actually just about two specific topics: (1) whether 21st century culture offers the feeling of artistic progress, where new styl
In any case, it’s enough to make anyone feel crazy. Over the last decade we’ve watched — and while I’m talking about the tech industry, I think we can
One hallmark of our current moment is that when an event happens, there is little collective agreement on even basic facts. This, despite there being
rich people want to be cool and cool people want to be rich and everyone just wants to be a little less anxious
Unsettled is a good word to describe the weirdness of modern life, and I think one of the main reasons many of us feel unsettled is because no one fee
It’s important to note that life wasn’t always like that! To the contrary, we only very recently – in a tiny, tiny, recent part of humanity’s history
This is pretty good, and strangely consistent with my own idea of good taste Tasteful people pursue stuff with purpose, have an appreciation and curi
On paper, taste = discernment. In practice, taste = your sense of self, made visible.
For Kant, judgment is the mental faculty that connects particulars to universals—the capacity to say “this thing is an instance of that category.” But
A system optimized for noise elimination is hostile to the genuinely new. It converges on what works, on what has worked. That convergence might produ
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The text actually moves back and forth between all of these. Few novels pay less attention to the rules of fiction than Zen and the Art of Motorcycle
surprise may be a better proxy for creativity than quality. A polished output is not necessarily creative, but a surprising one might be. Yet even sur
What I call temporal curiosity is the practice of actively directing our curiosity across time – past, present, future – to gain a deeper understandin
“It’s not just you prompting the LLM, but also the LLM as a prompt reversibly triggers your imagination and creativity… Again, the role of the LLM her
“gentle and powerful” = both an oxymoron and also a highly desirable combination.
Jason Fried on company culture: "You have to find the nature of things. That's the thing I've found to be the most useful tool in anything: trying t
I recently took up drumming. Again. One of the first things you realize, other than you suck, is that you’re gripping the sticks too hard. A tight g
The Zapatistas and the Electronic Fabric of Struggle*
Believing we’re separate, we seek control to remain safe. Releasing that belief, we discover our safety always lies in cooperation.
To me, that’s healthy competition: an inherent call-and-response between artists in which one artist’s output inspires the other’s output, which catal
Folk Interfaces
The core problem is not that open source projects are not sharing the money received. The problem is that, in total numbers, open source is not gettin
Open source projects, the infrastructure of digital public goods, have long relied on unsustainable funding sources like Github Sponsors, Open Collect
It’s hard to talk about “masterpieces” because the concept trades on a theory of aesthetics that is controversial when spelled out (aesthetic value re
The inhabitants of /lit/ see themselves as the victim of anti-canon efforts, as the academy has sought to “decolonise” and expand the curriculum over
A reading revolution is taking place on this notorious message board, most famous for alt-right memes, anything-goes chatter, and large-scale coordina
In Good Hands
When hyper-individualism kicked into gear in the 1960s, people experimented with new ways of living that embraced individualistic values. Today we are
people still carve out community in the most hostile of places and subvert platforms to create space for human-first desires. We create solidarity inf
when a website, especially one that invites mass participation, goes offline or executes a huge dump of its data and resources, it’s as if a smallish
At some point while I was trying to write a dissertation as a parent of a preschooler and an infant, I attended a workshop from which I remember exact
I find that changing mediums is always good for my writing, so often I will go from the manila folder to a sheet of paper to a Word doc to a Scrivener
That private platforms such as Amazon’s Twitch, Twitter and Facebook now constitute the digital equivalents to public spheres is as much a political f
collectively-owned social and cultural institutions built on decentralised infrastructure: democratically governed manifestations of collective intere
We [also] build our sense of civic identity and opinions about government through social interactions. […] Our social capital — which Putnam defines a
Ugh, I can’t believe I had to live/work through the deaths of both print media AND online media and now possibly television and film too?? Can I just
The problem in media isn’t the business model. The problem is that most of the content sucks.
the answer for publishers in the age of AI is no different than it was in the age of Aggregators: build a direct connection with readers. This, by ext
If there's any kind of lesson in all this, it's mostly some advice I want to give myself. The lesson is simply: speak up. It's OK to slip into advocac
look at how the word “community” itself has been warped in recent years into a cynical marketing cliché to rival “storyteller” — annexed as the torche
to be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.
Tech communities, like any community, are messy. If you’re fortunate to land on one that’s inclusive and welcoming then there are exciting things comi
The club model teaches us something: organizations that endure don’t try to include everyone. They’re clear about their identity, even as that identit
We believe that a healthy ecosystem competes on innovative features, not critical mass. The social web should be centered around people, not platforms
It was only because I showed up and I paid attention," he said. "I looked for places to go. I looked for communities to join. I looked for ways to bec
design is the embodiment of values. Design is the ultimate commitment to or compromise of one’s values. And this is how we go about the world. We make
When Times New Roman appears in a book, document, or advertisement, it connotes apathy. It says, “I submitted to the typeface of least resistance.” Ti
Supportivelistening differs from other types of listening (e.g., listening during chit-chat or aconflict, informational listening) because it requires
Contemplative dyads, in particular, represent a deep interpersonal meditative practice carried out in pairs with a witness who engages in active liste
Gen Z and the End of Predictable Progress - by kyla scanlon
The game has shifted, and the winning strategy with it. It’s no longer about understanding specialized details; it’s about grasping the high-level glo
What we do with our freedomThe examples of the excruciating etiquette of the aristocratic courts, the marriage market Rhimes dramatised, the civil ass
