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The YouTuber Emma Chamberlain is one of the fastest growing Gen Z influencers. She has one of the highest engagement rates across young influencers. Now, her content is all very authentic, she’s very much herself. She mixes in that very relatable aspect with the very aspirational. And I think the best influencers are able to be both aspirational an... See more
Connie Chan • Designing for, Marketing to, and Partnering with Gen Z
I think there’s a diff between “content moderation” and setting expectations for civil interactions. Like a platform finding ways to encourage ppl to be civil to each other isn’t censorship, to me (done well, they should barely notice you’re even doing it). And I think that DOES, or at least can, fall in the purview of what a platform should be tas... See more
Nadia Asparouhova • Notes
The AIRights licensing platform for creators - Created by Humans
createdbyhumans.ai
interesting company founded by Trip Adler, the former CEO of Scribd, helping creators license their intellectual property to LLMs. Walter Isaacson (who wrote the biographies for Steve Jobs and Elon Musk) is an investor and advisor. I’m skeptical this will be a meaningful stream of revenue for creators and media companies.
In K-12 education, it’s nearly impossible to scale metrics of teacher efficacy without very short term measurement of student performance on standardized tests that don’t map very well to the long term value of education.
Andrew Kortina • Metrics, Incrementalism, and Local Maxima
If you make 100 investments, you’re probably going to make the most money on five or fewer of them. This is why you can’t take every suggestion by a great investor to heart, the returns are only super successful about 5% of the time–even for the best of the best You just don’t hear about the failures. In the early decades of Disney, the compa... See more
Tim Ferriss • Morgan Housel — The Psychology of Money, Picking the Right Game, and the $6 Million Janitor (#576)
We may be abandoning religion, but we’re not abandoning our search for meaning
Casper ter Kuile • The Seismic Spiritual Shifts Shaping Digital Campfires — The Digital Campfire Download
Focus until it hurts. Simply avoiding opportunities you aren’t interested in anyway is not a sign of focus. True focus involves sacrifice. That means turning away from opportunities you believe could be highly impactful, for the sake of something bigger. Succeeding in doing so is a superpower.
Mario Gabriele • The Wisdom List: Leif Abraham
Sudden shelter-in-place on a mass scale has created new emotional and social needs, which are rapidly thawing the inertia of our social media ice age. What we are finding — and what the next wave of social is already demonstrating — is that it is possible to create shared, intimate moments and experiences online that are no longer dismissed as “les... See more
James Currier • The Next Social Era is Here: Why Now Is the Time for Social Products Again
Of course, the "own a stake in what you use" argument might apply in some domains rather than others. There are probably more people excited to get equity in an app than equity in their local waste management company. But that brings up another problem: for large platforms, the value created is often a function of small amounts of value per user mu... See more