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This is the most profound shift of all. Moving from the J.P. Morgan model of ambition to the Mark Zuckerberg model shifts the balance of power from capital to talent. Ambitious people have gone from writing cheques to writing code. Today the most ambitious individuals don’t own the means of production, if they can write code they are their own... See more

The easier it is for the average person to publish, the more average what gets published becomes.

Instead of using aggregated engagement data on consumers’ revealed preferences, it's actually more valuable to disaggregate “the crowd” into specific communities and clusters, and to pick cultural objects that spike in particular communities or are at the intersection of two to three communities, rather than the objects that are broadly liked.

There's a feeling you get

in the presence of

beautiful buildings and bustling courtyards.

A sense that these spaces

are inviting you to slow down,

deepen your attention, and be

a bit more human.

What if our software could do the same?

Saving is the gap between your ego and your income.

Here again, Eghbal provides a framework that transcends the open-source context that inspired it. In a digital economy, goods are either excludable or not (meaning paywall-able, essentially), and rivalrous or not (meaning infinitely copyable at zero marginal cost or not). The resulting 2 × 2 matrix describes just about every way to make a buck... See more