The most buzzy of these startups is Clubhouse, an audio-based social network where people can spontaneously jump into voice chat rooms together. You see the unlabeled rooms of all the people you follow, and you can join to talk or just listen along,
almost everything mimics or remixes what already existed in culture (or what already exists on the internet). All those famous names of artists and writers you know were not constantly making original choices filled with divine inspiration denied to AI. Much like how Roger Federer won only 54% of points across all the professional matches he played... See more
Until recently, the relative resiliency of traditional pay TV and the rapid growth of streaming have obscured the inevitability that TV will go through a similar transition. But we’re on the cusp of it now. Traditional TV is, finally, rolling over, and streaming profits won’t likely be big enough to make up the difference. Many of the downstream... See more
This is how you entrench inequality:
We let the poor “invest” in lottery tickets, sports gambling and casinos but not startups.
The first three are perennial losers. Startups have returned 15% over the past 50 years.
Remember that unbelievable amounts of wisdom remains unshared: There are about 5-10 interesting writers focused on the future of work writing on the internet that I follow. I wish there were at least 10x that many. I continue to write about these things because I think I can add something to the conversation. Find an area where you think that... See more