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Major new mediums change the structure of discourse. Books demand that you sit still and pay attention for long periods. Television’s demands on you are much different.
Neil Postman • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts
Jill Abramson • 3 highlights
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On Information and information diet management
the more energy you spend worrying about things outside of your control the less energy you have for creative output within your control.
to find value in a world overflowing with distractions, we have to ruthlessly ignore much of what we see.
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First, digital media enjoys the zero marginal costs of both software and content. Each incremental user to join Facebook, TikTok, or YouTube costs nothing. And when that user shares a piece of content, that content can reach a theoretically infinite number of people at zero cost. Some people would argue that these companies aren’t media companies, ... See more
Rex Woodbury • The Business of Fame: 1920-2020
In a pre-television word, the name of a famous person would bring ideas to mind. But in post television world, it brings a face to mind. What do you think of when you hear Clinton, Nixon, Elvis, probably first their face.
Neil Postman • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Taken to its logical conclusion, ChatGPT plugins will provide infinite choice without the Paradox of Choice.
Packy McCormick • Attention Is All You Need
this demand is so insatiable that there is currently no real economic punishment for content overproduction. You will almost never lose money, followers, attention, or reach simply from posting too much.
Matthew Yglesias • Matt Yglesias and the Secret of Blogging
This isn’t new to culture — this is culture. The difference is that software now mediates a significant share of our experience within and between worlds. And software that affords presence or spatial awareness — from a simple video chat app to a more immersive game-like product — can establish a type of proximity between individuals, or even betwe... See more
Marc Geffen • The Minimum Viable Metaverse
Unlike vertical search aggregators, boutique search engines feel less like yellow pages, and more like texting your friends to ask for a recommendation. They have constrained supply, which is the foundation for their biggest moat - trust. Importantly, boutique search engines introduce new business models that don’t rely on advertising.