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All of this would be fine if niche strategy resulted in creatives feeling great about their lives. But it doesn't. More often than not, it leads to a downward spiral of decisions that feel inauthentic and forced. Those decisions pile up, one by one, until we've constructed a machine that meets our economic needs, but at the expense of our spirit.
rob hardy • The perils of niching down
one hope participants had was for Wordcraft to be useful as a brainstorming and ideation tool. However, in practice, participants found it challenging to get suggestions that were interesting enough to be useful. RS questioned why he should bother using Wordcraft for it to simply “inject a few details I might have come up with on my own”. The need
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Think about someone you didn’t take seriously until someone you respect told you that they think highly of them—how many missed opportunities are there because people miss out on this information? We have inefficient markets for reputation today, and that creates all sorts of market failures as a result.
Erik Torenberg • The Promise of Peer-to-Peer Credentials
As with most other business models in music, paid membership models and closed "fan clubs" require a lot of work to execute well. Even the highest level of celebrity status does not guarantee success: In 2019, Taylor Swift and the Kardashian sisters had to shut down their own social apps, largely due to neglect.
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Douglas W. Hubbard • How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business
Jonnie Hallman (@destroytoday)
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Three, the music NFT projects I’m describing this week are entirely optional. You can still stream Legend on Spotify without buying one of his NFTs; you can still go to Coachella without winning an auction for a lifetime pass. The music industry has so far approached crypto as a way to sell extras to an artist’s most hardcore fans, and it’s natural... See more
Casey Newton • Why gamers hate crypto, and music fans don't
Because Zillow’s main customers are agents, it can’t cut them out of the transaction, and ends up paying over 50% more than Opendoor on agent commissions. To lower this cost, it would have to risk pissing off the people who pay it the marketing fees that drive the majority of Zillow’s revenue and margin.