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The media business has traditionally been built around content. There have been hints of culture driven commerce throughout the years in the NYT blue bag, the New Yorker tote bag, but most of these attempts teetered on the edge of membership and nowhere near the manufacturing of subcultures. We are seeing new media companies begin to work towards... See more

MY FIVE DOS FOR GETTING BACK INTO THE GAME:1. Do expect defeat. It’s a given when the stakes are high and the competition is working ferociously to beat you. If you’re surprised when it happens, you’re dreaming; dreamers don’t last long.2. Do force yourself to stop looking backward and dwelling on the professional “train wreck” you have just been... See more

A version of this that we all have seen is the student completing assignments right before the deadline. Almost everyone I know completes homework right before the deadline, even when they really enjoy the homework. The existence of the deadline warps their distribution to finish it right before the deadline most of the time (sometimes right... See more

 How many problems of life can be solved actually by tinkering with perception, rather than that tedious, hardworking and messy business of actually trying to change reality?

I tend to be a believer that platforms do create policies. The idea that they are just “enforcing laws” is kind of BS. If that was the case, there’s a very narrow definition of content that’s actually illegal, and there’d be a whole bunch of things that they would allow.