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- Success here will come down to implementation details. The incentive structure, funding sources, size, goals, moderation approach, and community management philosophy of these networks will determine their long term viability as both businesses and communities.
from Come for the Network, Pay for the Tool by Toby Shorin
- The subscription model means content providers are paid regularly no matter the quality and quantity of the product. Makes sense – being paid on a regular basis before you make content is awesome, but in this subscription economy, we have lost the ability to place value on each individual film. If the company spends time and energy on only certain ... See more
from The Disappearance of the Hit-Driven Business Model
the current subscription-based business model makes it really hard for film makers to create a hit and/or generate a profit large enough.
- The arrival of blockchains over the past decade created a new option for impatient VCs. Companies in the Web 2.0 era produced only goods and services, whose value was always denominated in dollars or other national currencies. But companies in the web3 era offer a third product — tokens — and the value of those tokens is far less tethered to realit... See more
from There's Something Off About ApeCoin by Casey Newton
- Why would it not be countercyclical now? The main factor is the disruption of the in-person student experience, as the idea of an online-first college will lose much of its former appeal as a "bundled" set of services
from A post-COVID learning world, Part 1 😷 Transcend Newsletter XXIV by Transcend Network
- This suggests to me the need for a separate field of human augmentation. That field will take input from cognitive science. But it will fundamentally be a design science, oriented toward bold, imaginative design, and building systems from prototype to large-scale deployment.
from Augmenting Long-Term Memory by augmentingcognition.com
- 25. Make three true “we” statements each. For instance, “We are both in this room feeling ... “
from The 36 Questions That Lead to Love (Published 2015) by Arthur Aron
- Put this over your desk: “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” Buckminster Fuller knew stuff.
from 101 Design Rules by Brian Collins
If your opinion about the stock is already embedded in the price of the stock, then you are not going to make any money
from Legendary Investor Bill Gurley on Investing Rules, Finding Outliers, Insights from Jeff Bezos and Howard Marks, Must-Read Books, Creating True Competitive Advantages, Open-Source Strategies, Adapting Mental Models to New Realities, and More (#651) - The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss by Tim Ferriss
- To believe that there is an arguably limitless supply of valuable ideas waiting to be discovered is one thing. To argue that they constitute a limitless reserve of value for Schumpeterian growth to deliver is to misunderstand how ideas work: they are only valuable if attention is efficiently directed to the right places to discover them and energy ... See more
from A Brief History of the Corporation: 1600 to 2100 by Venkatesh Rao