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The audience isn’t a commodity. Instead, the audience views themself as a part of the brand, and associate their own ideas with their consumption and engagement with the creator.

To bring projects like the one described above to fruition, new infrastructure is needed that borrows from open-source software communities and beyond. You can imagine a range of tools, including recruitment and application management, process mining to identify new discrete stages in the creative process, and sophisticated forking tools.

Soloists (independent service professionals of all kinds) routinely get their best new clients via referrals from existing clients, and prefer referrals over paying for leads, placing ads, and gaming search engines.

If it’s tied to the creator, the income from everything that they build should flow into the token. But if it’s tied to a set of work, the creator is free to start new business endeavors without feeling like they’ve already sacrificed a significant portion of their equity. That then leads to another set of considerations. If all of a creator’s exis... See more

There is an idea that I have been guilty of uncritically parroting and promoting in the past: surround yourself with smarter people. Another popular version is never be the smartest guy in the room.

Per Wedbush, as of today, 80% of queries are still not monetized by ads (given not being of a commercial nature), so there continues to be a lot of room for Google to show more ads.

Today’s graduates are expected to hold between 15 and 20 jobs (!) over the course of a career. Many haven’t been invented yet: 85% of today’s college students will have jobs in just 11 years that don’t currently exist.