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The music industry is still reeling from the discovery that the reproduction and distribution of music, previously a valuable service, is now something their customers can do for themselves.

Gaming as a branding and narrative architecture: Album release campaigns with games, Album release campaigns as games, Parasocial artist-branded games

The first step towards being “high agency” is always the same. You cannot take effective action towards bending the world to your desire until you know, in detail, what it is that you desire.

Elon’s proposal for a world view/ motivating philosophy: “Understand what questions to ask about the answer that is the universe” To that end, Elon aims to “Expand the scope and scale of consciousness so that we may better understand the nature of the universe”

According to the Re:Create Coalition’s study on America’s New Creative Economy, in 2017, 5.6M creators on Instagram earned revenue through sponsored posts. Contrast that with Patreon’s entire base of 150,000 creators who earn revenue through membership subscriptions—representing just 2.7% of Instagram’s income-earning creator base.

Luminary raised hundreds of millions to become to the “Netflix of podcasts” But… it’s not really working