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the goal is resonance, not scale and long-term thinking
This a very interesting read on long-lived institutions. A few facts: most of the oldest companies in the world are in Japan. 90% of the companies that are over 200 years old have 300 employees or less, they’re not mega companies
The trouble with podcasts is that they are difficult to grow: while text can be shared and consumed quickly, a podcast requires a commitment (which again, is why advertising in them is so valuable).
Stratechery • Grantland and the (Surprising) Future of Publishing
“The attempt to avoid failure makes failure more likely.”
Polina Marinova • The Profile Dossier: Ed Catmull, Pixar's Creative Genius
I think Odell frames both the question and the stakes correctly. Attention is contagious. What forms of it, as individuals and as a society, do we want to cultivate? What kinds of mediums would that cultivation require?
Ezra Klein • I Didn’t Want It to Be True, but the Medium Really Is the Message
Designed as anticipated, sharable memories with friends
Mercedes Bent • Investing in the Experience Economy
Wonder, thus construed, helps us to see the world as valuable for its own sake, and thus helps us not only see it as a means to human ends. A person who sees the natural world as intrinsically valuable will not be tempted to use it as a mere means, and thus end up with very different attitudes and relationships to the environment.
Helen De Cruz • How can wonder transform us?
The open community of the internet is somewhere where you can find other people who are interested in those same things as you and who want to learn about those same things as you in a way that was not really possible before, without there being a substantial amount of transaction costs involved.