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“Algorithms are replacing the fundamentally human—or at least, the less digitally mediated—process
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
In this week's episode of the Indie Universities Podcast, we spoke with @jwdanner in detail about his journey in education as a founder & investor, his thoughts around the modes of online learning & how creators can build sustainable businesses.
Highlights below https://t.co/ocAOWRZ2KC
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New in the Screenshot Essays series: Humble Giants are
Unbundling the Internet:
http://estromberg.com/humble-giants
With the former, a networked product must be designed to switch users from single player to multiplayer mode. With the latter, the product must switch from manual (and company-supported) to automated.
Andrew Chen • The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects
The video game world was awash with money in the early 2000s. New investors had flooded the market, chasing exponentially profitable blockbusters made by non-unionized hobbyists working with budgets less than the cost of craft services for a Harry Potter movie—take Grand Theft Auto III (2001), made for 5 million USD, which grossed over 250 million... See more
Life in the Ludic Century - Outland
“To have this pressure from an algorithm, they’re not offering us anything in exchange,”
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
In place of the human gatekeepers and curators of culture, the editors and DJs, we now have a set of algorithmic gatekeepers.