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Li Jin • We studied 50+ startups on TikTok and here’s what we found

In financial terms, blog posts have asymmetric returns with capped downside but unlimited upside. If you write a bad post it won’t get shared and no one will see it. If you write a great post and it goes viral, everyone on the internet thinks you’re a genius. Since content is shared organically, your best work gets way more exposure than your worst... See more

Applied Divinity Studies • [Guest post] How Substack Became Milquetoast

Community leaders deserve better: An open letter about community software

David Sherry li.substack.com

Infrastructure for Communities and Request for Startups

My prediction may be too early, but I think it is directionally correct. The centrality of the internet in our lives will fade. Sure, we will still use it for banking, for sending off quick missives and for looking things up and so on. But the current culture of all day, every day screen time will fade. It will become passé, spurious, and something... See more

Thomas J Bevan • The End of the Extremely Online Era

Tech and Society

My thesis is that when deployed at scale, using a market where users value content in real time will be superior in surfacing quality content to the ad driven model we use today. An attention market will align incentives where the best content is incentivized, boosted, and has a permanence that is missing from the real time feeds we use today. We c... See more

Anne-Laure Le Cunff • Building a social knowledge base with Knovigator

Interrogate your influences.

We all have favourite influencers and influences - people we know, celebrities, artists, friends, writers, and uh, influencers. Books, TV shows, movies. Most of the time we’re happy just to accept that those are the people and things we admire and seek to emulate. But what artistic careers show us is the importance of p

information diet management and Agency

High differentiation, low durability. There’s a lot of fashion, luxury, travel and entertainment brands and the entire genre of DTC brands that are very much talked about for a moment, only to fade into obscurity/low consumer preference once the negative effects of their fractured internal cultures, lack of new funding/revenue, lack of brand-buildi... See more

Ana Andjelic • Differentiation in the Sea of Sameness 👑

I’d easily pay $9.99 a month for an army of robots to binge-read my entire library at 3,000x speed so they can map my curiosities and

recommend excerpts to me as I craft sentences in real-time

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Turns out, this kind of exists already, through an app called

re:collect

(you should request access). I played around with it in 2022

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and it gave me a glimp... See more

Michael Dean • Margin Matchmaker

making sublime

First, that the opportunity Postmates saw was Grubhub’s to lose, but Postmates ran at that opportunity too aggressively while Grubhub ran at it too slowly. And second, as DoorDash battles two public company competitors in GrubHub and Uber Eats, staying private is a weapon I suspect they won’t be eager to give up.