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The financialization of culture has manifested in two primary ways: lottery culture and equity culture.

Perhaps most importantly, Google is not necessarily incentivized to optimize ranking for UGC. Ranking a Tweet more highly will funnel more web traffic to Twitter, a direct competitor to Google in the market for ad spend.

The lack of professional infrastructure available to support creator led, solo media companies either pushed people back inside the four walls of a company, capping both their creative flexibility and upside, or forced them to try to build their businesses on top of platforms far more incentivized to deliver a network (which, of course, has value)... See more

If we accept that 68% of students are concerned about online learning (community interaction, reliable certificates or a great user experience), then the idea that new providers will have to transform previous parts of the education experience (what we’ve called human education components) and adapt it to a new set of media becomes really... See more

Some might make the argument that this would only increase polarization by sorting people into ever more distant filter bubbles. Right now we all already construct our own filter bubbles based on who we follow, this could take it one step deeper by integrating the filter bubble into the algorithm itself.  But I don’t think this is a real risk.... See more

Building is a journey into randomness. By venturing mindfully through a wealth of data, collective histories, and economic considerations, there are remarkable synchronicities to be discovered.

Pause and consider this for a second. Do you treat your partner how they want to be treated or do you treat them how you want to be treated? Few of us actually understand the needs of the other human being in the partnership. 

“While the development of the institutional and market forms of organization led to an emphasis on competitive advantages, development of the multi-organizational network form may shift the emphasis to cooperative advantages”