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Membership is a subsidy system in which those who can afford to support journalism do so, at least partially to ensure that it continues to be available for everyone. But there is a growing tension between member-driven newsrooms’ public service mission and having a membership program, which inherently trends toward exclusivity.

I was first attracted to open source – public code that everybody relies upon – after observing that its developers are creating trillions of dollars in economic value, while giving away their code for free.

- Is anything in the pipeline unclear, confusing or blocking?

Slack enables companies to scale faster, yet who feels most alive on slack? These things don't make me feel human. these things don't make me feel human. algorithms make the world more efficient but they don't make people feel alive.

we’ve always been influenced in what we find beautiful or valuable or important, of course, but what’s new is the speed at which one is inundated with things to desire, to value, to find beautiful.

It’s very telling how ‘wife’ is used here — a feminine partner is defined as a role of service, assistance. A wife is the antonym of a monster in this context. For a male art monster (or more generally: a  craft  monster), his female counterpart serves as an extension of him making sure the roads of his megalomania are slick and unblocke

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“The economic returns to being in cities are increasing” – David Perell