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But I’m also beginning to think that generative AI shouldn’t even be considered a creative tool at all and I think we may have really gotten off on the wrong foot by talking about it like one. I’m willing to go so far as to say generative AI, as it currently exists, is just productivity software. Case in point, Adobe’s Firefly.

Ryan Broderick • Generative AI is just productivity software

One analogy for this behavioral model is YouTube. Today you can visit YouTube without knowing exactly what videos you plan to watch. You can take a random “walk” through a nearly endless catalog of user-generated content. In a similar fashion, the Metaverse will be YouTube for social experiences—a place where we can meet and discover new... See more

Jonathan Lai • Meet Me in the Metaverse | Andreessen Horowitz

Products are still performative, but signalling collective betterment is more relevant than signalling creative individualism.

Protein Agency • Protein Agency - DIRTY WORDS - Influence.pdf

Subscriptions are unbelievable. You have recurring revenue that, ideally, compounds month after month. Nothing else matters because you have growing subscriptions. And then it stops. Suddenly, you report a loss in subscribers. And panic ensues. Suddenly, you ask: should I have been so anti-ad all these years?

Jacob Cohen Donnelly • The Pivot to Advertising Has Begun

The solution is to invent a new one that is a variant on the existing one

Tim Ferriss • Hyper-Productivity, Learning 10+ Languages, DAOs, and More | Noah Feldman on The Tim Ferriss Show

I’m thinking out loud about this, but there’s something interesting about the idea that social-media platforms now create this real distance, in part by being text-heavy. And that distance can lead you to say things or do things you’d never do in the physical world. It also lowers the bar for engagement, which means that firing off a shitty tweet... See more

The Atlantic • Lessons From 19 Years in the Metaverse

The subreddit r/MemeEconomy now boasts 1.4 million followers — self-proclaimed “meme analysts” — each dedicated to uncovering and “investing” in the memes that they believe have the most viral potential.

Harry Jones • The Meme Economy

-Young people are comfortable forging online-only or online-first relationships.

Shripriya Mahesh • A Sense of Belonging

This raises broader questions about the tech ecosystem and its investment model. I’ve been making the case for a long time that the natural endpoint is likely very large platforms and Aggregators on one-side, and a flourishing ecosystem focused on niches on the other, but implicit in the latter is that venture capital is not simply unncessary, it... See more