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Media companies found themselves increasingly subject to the whims of the platforms’ algorithms and business models. They replicated a Packaged Goods Media model on top of the platforms, and discovered – shocker! – that they no longer owned the audiences they were trying to sell to marketers. Instead, they had to buy audience from the platforms, an... See more
John Battelle • John Battelle's Search Blog Marketers Have Given Up on Context, And Our National Discourse Is Suffering
The decentralized automated organization (DAO) structure and the technologies underpinning them -- transparent ledgers, smart contracts, cryptocurrencies, automated governance and certifiable digital ownership -- were created specifically and solely to align incentives. And now that they have been in the market for several years, we are starting to... See more
Michael Lazerow • Venture Capital in a Decentralized World
Such strictness means the supplier and consumer don’t need to know each other, and without knowing each other they also have zero-recourse in meatspace-land, where things can get messy, slow and expensive.
Chris Burniske • Protocols as Minimally Extractive Coordinators — Placeholder
The store of the future is coming this summer. Here’s what it looks like.
Modern Retailmodernretail.coI really like watching videos on Douyin of sailing in the ocean. I'm not saying that people's work or life is always really difficult, like crashing ocean waves. I just want to use it as an analogy for a state of mind: no matter what challenges and difficulties there are in work or personal life, these are external. What each of us can do is w
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Discord’s Jason Citron mentioned that Discord has 19 million (!) active servers. Each is the living, breathing nucleus of a community. Jack Conte of Patreon framed it this way: you may think your interests are niche—maybe only 1 in 1,000 people like the same things as you—but with 4 billion people online, that’s 4 million people who share your inte... See more
Rex Woodbury • Throughlines (Part I)
When you can’t edit your photos, much less see what they look like, there’s nothing to do but go back to what you were doing before — watching the concert, laying with your friends at the park, being with your dog.
Justin Potts • Attention Required! | Cloudflare
“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so. “
– Mark Twain
The famous Anton Ego speech in Ratatouille:
In many ways, the work of a critic is easy.
We risk very little, yet enjoy a position of those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgement.
We thrive on negative criticism.
Which is fun to write and to read.
But the bitter truth we critics must face, is that in the grand scheme of things, the ave
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