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- “But you can’t make any money doing that.” That sentence soon won’t make any sense. You can monetize most anything now, and it will only be more so in the near future.
Virginia Woolf on her ideal diary:
I should like it to resemble some deep old desk or capacious hold-all, in which one flings a mass of odds and ends without looking them through. I should like to come back, after a year or two, and find that the collection had sorted itself and refined itself and coalesced, as such deposits so mysteriously do.”
- Real estate in the metaverse will not be a thing. Real estate is valuable because there is a non-zero cost to move from point A to point B in the real world. There is no such cost in a digital world, negating all value of the analogous concept.
- Percent of revenue kept by creators: (from most to least) ✍️ Writers: 90% (Substack subs) 💋 Adult creators: 80% (OnlyFans) ▶️ YouTubers: 55% (YT ads) 🔴 Streamers: 50% (Twitch subs) 🎵 Musicians: 12% (after Spotify + label's cut) 🎨 Digital artists: Unknown
Jeff Bezos on meetings and truth-finding:
Meetings at Amazon are unusual. When new people come in, they're a little taken aback because the typical meeting, we'll start with a six-page narratively structured memo and we do study hall. For 30 minutes, we sit there silently together in the meeting and read. Take notes in the margins. And then we disc
... See moreSteve Jobs explains the importance of both thinking and doing:
“The doers are the major thinkers. The people who really create the things that change this industry are both the thinker-doer in one person.”
If you work on anything worthwhile, sooner or later people will care about it and will want you to send progress updates. These could be quarterly investor updates, weekly updates to your boss, emails to adjacent teams, etc. Here are tips on how to do this well.
Understand your role, and with each update add to the body of evidence that you’re a goo
the vibe I get from every product called Something AI "Nearly everything in our daily lives is improved by Chemistry. From transportation, to the clothes we wear! Chemistry helps bring us better food. Makes our homes more beautiful, more comfortable. Helps protect our health,… Show moreBrand Storytelling and Positioning
yes!! this is why I banned using the phrase AI from any of our marketing materials. nobody cares about AI. they care about what you can do for them.downloading new tools today feels like opening a cockpit with 40 years of features.
how will natural language interfaces change this?
