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Just think about how much effort you have to put into maintaining the facade of being an Expert — how much effort it takes to always appear as “the one who knows”… and compare that to the freedom and flow and playfulness that can open up when you really allow yourself to sink into not knowing, when you no longer care if you make mistakes or if you... See more
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Functionality still matters, of course. But competition has pushed quality so high and prices so low that many manufacturers can no longer distinguish themselves with price and performance, as traditionally defined. In a crowded marketplace, aesthetics is often the only way to make a product stand out.
-Virginia Postrel
Societies and platforms flourish when there is a path for everyone to have upward mobility, achieve financial security, and learn and grow. The beautiful thing is, in the real world as well as in the digital world, it’s up to us to build this path.
Harvard Business Review • Building the Middle Class of the Creator Economy
The two main monetization channels for newsletter writers are: subscriptions and ads. Subscriptions are great because they provide recurring revenue but it usually takes a bit of time to build enough trust for people to pay for a subscription. Subscriptions also suffer from what I call “the paywall paradox”.
Patrick Rivera • Crypto-native newsletter businesses
Alongside high profile successes — such as best-selling cookbooks, as well as partnerships with major American retail giants [Walmart] and [Macy’s] — BuzzFeed is also helping to design products for other companies. It’s an approach that some UK publishers — like [Hearst UK], [Jungle Creations] and [Highsnobiety] — are [also pursuing]. In BuzzFeed’s... See more
Damian Radcliffe • How eCommerce is becoming a key part of publishers’ emerging revenue strategies
A lot of times, instead of thinking big, we actually need to think small. Instead of getting hyped about broad narratives that explain our predicament, we need to just buckle down and ask ourselves how we can do what we’re already doing—but much, much better. We need to focus on execution, not strategy.
Every • Execution Is Exponential
The effect of these greenhouse gases is that the planet has gotten hotter. Since the dawn of the Industrial Age, the average global temperature has risen one degree Celsius; some areas have even experienced a rise of over two degrees. That may not sound like much, but, on a global scale, it is. And there are many far-reaching consequences.