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Fortnite - half of teens say they use it to keep up with their friends, with most spending 6 to 10 hours each week on the platform.
Sara Wilson • The Era of Antisocial Social Media
“The meaning of life is to find your gift and the purpose of life is to give it away” – Shakespeare
Chip Conley • Chip Conley: Building Empires, Tackling Cancer, and Surfing the Liminal - The Tim Ferriss Show • Podcast Notes
Several participants wanted to be able to use Wordcraft to facilitate access to information. The idea of using the language model as a search engine repeatedly came up. In MT’s words: “I can’t read the entire internet or all the books by my favorite authors, but I can use a model like this one to leverage prolific catalogues” of information. DH
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People often say that online behavior would improve if every comment system forced people to use their real names. It sounds like it should be true – surely nobody would say mean things if they faced consequences for their actions?
Yet the balance of experimental evidence over the past thirty years suggests that this is not the case. Not only would
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The story of Sylvester Stallone in 1975 sitting down to write a screenplay and, three and a half days later, emerging with the full script for Rocky:
“At that time, I must admit, my life was definitely on the wane, at least professionally, I was emotionally, spiritually, physically, bankrupt. So I had $106, rent was $300, I had a pregnant wife—you
When I asked what, exactly, they thought made someone a promising Substack writer, Best turned to McKenzie and asked, in a jokey hush, “Do we keep the Baschez score a secret?” McKenzie laughed. They have a system, created by a former employee named Nathan Baschez, that measures a Twitter user’s engagement level—retweets, likes, replies—among their... See more
cjr.org • The Substackerati
A large portion of these companies chose niche products (luggage, mattresses, etc..), but tied themselves to a wider theme (travel, sleep, etc…). Organic social and content marketing were the most common “core” channels. Cost-effective, attention grabbing, visual, direct social proof – I’m not surprised that these channels were leaned on.