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There is so much mystique around the creative life. It’s fetishized and coveted and seen as mysterious even by the people who inhabit it. We have a cultural script that says: There’s too much consumption, not enough creation! If you want to be a [tasteful/interesting/admirable/happy] person, you should make more things. But then also: Social media ... See more

- Technology is shifting market power away from publications and towards writers**

Community is one of those words that means different things to different people. For clarity’s sake, I’ll share my definitions of the word. To me, community is as simple as a group of people helping each other out.

"How it started: DCF and other methods were once important tools used to calculate the value of individual equities. Equity markets were a place companies went to raise money for expansion and investment.

a fascinating distinction between subscriptions (legacy media) & membership (creators) happening in real time— subscriptions: best content is paywalled because content is the only value membership: best content is free because the creator and the community is the value.

And you’ll have a semantic mental ‘framework’ in your brain on which to then hang all the great things you learn from your reading, which makes it more likely that you’ll retain that stuff as well. I read somewhere that Bill Gates structures his famous “reading weeks” around an outline of important questions he’s thought about and broken down into ... See more

I believe the short term winner in this game will be a new company we haven’t seen yet. A developer first audio API built for bringing social audio networks to existing apps. Think of all the games and apps that could be dramatically improved if there was in app audio chat. Look at Fortnite - Epic didn’t succeed just because they built a dope game ... See more