As someone who very much enjoys podcasts I continue to be frustrated that so much information is locked up in opaque audio files. How do we make all of this information accessible, searchable, navigable, linkable, upvotable, etc? Great opportunity if someone does this right, imo.

Today we announce a new venture, @ottrisk Over the last year a few things have become clear: the world is more uncertain than ever, and the situation for small businesses is more perilous than ever. Technology and capital can play a role in solving this problem.

tone of voice (and personality?) is the UI of the natural language / AI-agent era, and it's a pretty unexplored spectrum of possibilities at this point.

New in the Screenshot Essays series: Humble Giants are Unbundling the Internet: http://estromberg.com/humble-giants

I think we’ll realize that the early text-to-image “prompt-based” era of GenAI undermined creativity while the “controls” era unleashed human creativity in unimaginable ways. the tools evolve, but creative vision, precision, taste, and skills will be more vital than ever before.

I've long hated the CAC/LTV framework (particularly for consumer businesses). Because it’s so tied with creating a structural dependency on Google & Facebook it isn’t only a poor framework, it can lull you into mediocrity. My raw notes over the years of addressing this topic:

This is how you entrench inequality: We let the poor “invest” in lottery tickets, sports gambling and casinos but not startups. The first three are perennial losers. Startups have returned 15% over the past 50 years.

It is time for a thread on traditional urbanism, or town planning 13th century style. I will dispel some myths of modern dis-urbanism.

1/ Over the past 6 months, @David_M_Kerr and I have been researching several legal issues facing many DAOs (liability, taxes, contracting, etc.) that are beginning to emerge and that threaten their viability. Today, we published a potential solution.👇 https://t.co/eB6XiR1a5R

1/4 Thread: Past, Present, and Future While Investing Investing is all about future. It's the future cash flows that the stock price is trying to incorporate. That's investing 101. But many people miss the *past* and the *present* have important place in investing. How?