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Negative taste is the ability to tell when something is bad. Positive taste is the ability to make something that is good. Indeed, one might even say that there is only one kind of taste and positive taste is simply negative taste plus skills. 

So what creators need, then, is the opposite of a cult: they need a decentralized collective, a DAO. With proper coordination, DAOs actually offer a far more compelling model for distribution than centralized models of either corporate conglomerates or, yes, cults. In fully decentralized creator communities, fans can actively become creators... See more

Moving from audiences to communities. Memberships and subscriptions hold the promise of closing the gap between media brands and their audiences. When your audience is your customer, you tend to provide better services. The advent of tokens and decentralized autonomous organizations would seem to represent the next step. It is logical for a... See more

Totaling $250B in the US alone, alcohol is a massive business. But recent developments have signaled disruption:

Current bill payment APIs from companies like Fiserv leave a lot to be desired. Add that to the fact that existing banking apps (from the big players, at least) are badly designed and unpleasant to use. It doesn't have to be that way. In fact, with the right design, bill payment could be delightful. You could gamify the process, building a rewards... See more

All of these are common online course topics, and the answer is usually: anything. By prioritizing possibility over results and the parasocial over pedagogy, creators are able to tap into their customers’ deepest desires and make promises accordingly.

Innovating within an existing platform is always a challenge, because as media theorist Marshall McLuhan argued decades ago, ‘the medium is the message’. TikTok and Twitter/X have short-form content built into the design of the platform, which prevents depth. As I explore in The Bigger Picture, this also leads to what philosopher C. Thi Nguyen... See more

The community aspect and the utility the product offers on the personal level makes Notion one of the best examples of the B2C2B phenomena that has risen in recent years. Evangelists will use it for their personal work, and will then act as ready-made advocates when the opportunity arises for their corporate organization.