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The biggest obstacle Facebook has to overcome to make Reels successful is that the type of content that makes TikTok amazing is the stuff people don’t want to post in an environment connected to their real-life friends.

Social media gives us addictive routine; constantly checking our phones, mindlessly scrolling, endlessly searching for new stimulation. In this way, it keeps us trapped in profane time. Endless cycles without much substance, a timelessness that isn’t full, but empty. Look up from a social media feed and you may have lost half an hour, but that half... See more

A class of supplements bills itself as neuroenhancers or nootropics—compounds you don’t need a prescription for that promise to augment your mental functioning without side effects. A notable subset of the people interested in these brain pills—and sometimes hawking them—are on the right. It’s not hard to see how today’s pressures might make a pers... See more

Jesse: In the short term, the successful Web 2 creators are likely to do better creating NFTs that are not the original work that they're posting elsewhere, but rather thinking of NFTs from first principles, maybe as a new kind of digitally native merch that's distinct from the YouTube video.

Today, most successful characters exist as intellectual property owned by a single corporation. This means that fans don’t have any governance, let alone direct ownership, of these characters, limiting them to being only passive consumers of the products and narratives that the corporation decides to create. Even if fans buy public equity in the co... See more

“Elon Musk is sane in a way that almost every human is crazy” – Tim UrbanThe world moves so fast that conventional wisdom does not translate across generations as well as it used to  Reasoning by first principles: knowing when and how to abandon outdated forms of knowledge

Radio advertising is projected to decline 14% in 2020. Covid-19 has a mortality rate of 4.1% in the US (note: this may decline dramatically as we get our act together on testing). Among US media firms, the death rate will be 10-20%. Firms ranging from Condé Nast to Viacom are furloughing/laying off people as Facebook and Google ramp up hiring. How ... See more