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One of the most important companies in making both of the non-Amazon value-chains work is Shopify, which is a platform, not an Aggregator. Google and Facebook may collect the customers, but it is Shopify (and WooCommerce, its open-source competitor) that provides the infrastructure for merchants to actually sell things online.
Ben Thompson • Platforms in an Aggregator World
A friend of mine recently asked me if I thought everything was systemic. I said I think that’s sort of right. Take systemic racism. I tend to think that while systemic racism exists, “progress” on questions of race is no less systemic. This is not how we like to talk about things in the United States. We imagine entrenched injustice that is righted... See more
Damian Marusic • Progress Without Heroes
(Ep.63) The Acquirers Podcast: Andrew Wilkinson – Berkshire.com, How Tiny Is Building The Berkshire Of The Internet
acquirersmultiple.comIn 2014 — the only year I have the exact numbers for — 25 percent of the songs that climbed to the top 10 in the US were written or co-written by Swedish songwriters. Over the past decade as whole, the number is somewhere between 10 and 20 percent. No country comes close to exporting as much music in relation to the size of its economy.
Henrik Karlsson • Scene creation engines and apprenticeships
Businesses can’t use their data to make smarter decisions.
Packy McCormick • OZE: Not Boring Investment Memo
More and more, creative people are going to be expected to manage their own business, their own marketing, their own promotion. And I think just as equally, business people are going to find that their world is enhanced by being creative.
Rolf Potts • Conscious Creators — Make A Life Through Your Art Without Selling Your Soul: Rolf Potts — How to Find Soulful Success and The Dance Between Creativity and Business
Jot | For those who take their coffee easy
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Avoid content made after 2016 - Something happened in 2016. The internet became less weird, less creative. Whatever the cause, pre-2016 content has a distinct flavour of strangeness that has vanished. My favourite hack for this: Find a book or essay you love. Open up ChatGPT deep research. Ask for 50 similar books or essays, all created before... See more
George Mack • How to be creative (without taking drugs)
14. Is there something that you’ve dreamed of doing for a long time? Why haven’t you done it?