sari

The upgrade cycle gets longer.

There’s no reason that 1000 employees can’t be replaced by a group of independent contractors, especially in a post-assembly line economy.

hey sari,

i remember the first time i handpicked something for my library. it was ~2 weeks before doors closed for the transition from startupy to sublime. over a decade of being online and i don't think i've ever felt at home on the internet the way i did in that very moment. i was used to finding myself in places where i needed to think, filter,

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Bottom line: This is the tip of the iceberg, and these are still early innings. Most of today’s projects will flop as part of the relay-race of mass adoption. But as you can hopefully see, the opportunities emerging for entrepreneurs are almost violently compelling.

Spotify is rolling up the internet audio market, which their CEO, Daniel Ek, thinks will grow from $100 billion in revenue a year to somewhere near the video market, which is $1 trillion. People spend about the same amount of time consuming audio as video content. “Are our eyes,” he asks, “really worth 10 times more than our ears?”

We are all Frankenstein monsters—patchwork quilts of past experiences—trying to pass ourselves off as whole and cohesive things.