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You talk a lot in the book about Instagram, and with good reason: Instagram gave way to the rise of momfluencer culture as we know it. But these days Momfluencer content is all over Tiktok, too, and that's a different format: Tiktok is more suited to raw, unfiltered videos. In what ways do you see Tiktok changing mom culture online at all fro
... See morefrom The wild world of momfluencers (Q&A with Sara Petersen) by Sara Petersen
- This essay isn’t about network effects per se. It’s about the end state that they can enable: Defaults.
from The Power of Defaults by Julian Lehr
- “We have meaningful lives… when we do things that are important that otherwise would not get done. You don’t want to be a cog in a machine, you don’t want to be doing a thing that if you didn’t do it, a thousand other people would take your place. And so it’s always but for you, but for this venture or this company that you’re working on, this impo... See more
from I prefer meaning to happiness: Peter Thiel by Peter Thiel
- The podcast business is still predominantly powered by advertising, a channel that’s especially tethered to the ebb and flow of the greater economy. Speaking with over a dozen podcast makers last week, I’ve heard about several instances of ad cancellations and preemptive non-renewals. These pullbacks were said to be mostly clustered among industrie... See more
from Subscribe to Hot Pod - The Verge by Nicholas Quah
- While there are surely some people who blindly accept astrology as fact and view it as on par with a discipline like biology, that doesn’t seem to be the case among many of the young adults who are fueling this renaissance of the zodiac. The people I spoke to for this piece often referred to astrology as a tool, or a kind of language—one that, for ... See more
from Why Are Millennials So Into Astrology? by The Atlantic
- Defining web 3, @andy_matuschak says: "This is a sort of counter-intuitive definition given the emphasis on decentralization, but it helps me understand one facet: imagine that all web sites and databases and accounts and services are running on one shared server, and anyone can program it."
from Web3 and Media by Troy Young
- “Everyone only has 24 hours in a day. The mission of developers shouldn’t be to make users spend all their time on their phones aside from when they eat and sleep. We are more concerned with when our users communicate, post a picture, read an article, make a payment, or find a Mini Program, that they can do it as quickly and efficiently as possible... See more
from vol.33: 15 Mindful Product Principles from Allen Zhang, Father of WeChat by Patricia Mou
- I have been keeping both physical and digital commonplace books for over five years. The last couple of years, my commonplace book has been entirely digital. This is my process for keeping a commonplace book in @obsdmd from start to finish. 👇
- 5) Interchange Tools and Standards: The tools, protocols, formats, services, and engines which serve as actual or de facto standards for interoperability, and enable the creation, operation and ongoing improvements to the Metaverse.
from A Framework for the Metaverse — MatthewBall.vc by Matthew Ball