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It’s a lot of work to get users on your article. Statistically, the first thing that happens is that the user will close the tab without reading. Only a fraction will read your content for free — consider what an effort it takes to also be paid for it! The original sin of the web, indeed.
Andreas Stegmann • Ben Thompson’s Stratechery should be crossing 3 Million in Profits this Year
“One area that I think is unexplored and relevant to this conversation is digital merch. What does digital merch look like? Not your avatar wearing a digital shirt. Rather: a badge saying you found this person early. Being able to flex to your friends that you found an artist or a content creator before everyone else — and you can actually prove th... See more
Benjamin Laufer • The Day One Fan
-Revenue Sharing & Royalties (ie Steem)
Chris Rempel • Part 2: creating the new frontier – Chris Rempel's Blog
the best scientific minds are stuck in academia, the best operators are stuck in large consulting firms (like McKinsey) and the best engineers are stuck at FAANG companies... One of the reasons they do this is because they don’t know what to do next.
Erik Torenberg • Reconsidering Career Optionality
It would be a lot more useful to measure how well the economy and its various sectors catalyze emergence of human well-being. This is not extremely easy to measure but it can be done in a way that's far less fudgy than current standard attempts to measure economic productivity.
Ben Goertzel • We Should Be Measuring Well-Being Catalysis, Not (trying and largely failing to measure) Economic Productivity
In other words, what happens when the fanbase is able to give the artist an advance to do their work and get exposed the financial upside of the project?
Nick Johnson • Creators, Communities, and the Gray Space in the Middle — Nichanan Kesonpat
Dropbox Brand Guidelines
brand.dropbox.com
nice approach to a brand guidelines doc
To be a platform rather than just a tool, Substack needs to answer the following question: as another new creator joins the Substack, how does it become better for all the other creators as well?