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And so it helped, but we didn't see a major reaction in terms of return to growth and monetization in the market. That really started to change around 2014, 2015 as streaming came to the market and streaming, to me, solves not only the first point, which is around the UX and the digital experience, but it solves the monetization point too.
Colossus • Universal Music Group: The Gatekeepers of Music
Fandom, on the other hand, pins you in your body, because it disallows you from pretending you are “nowhere” in relation to your subject. Fandom admits care, attachment, and dedication. For Fisher, as for me, fan-love might take up the traditional tools of intellectual critique—say, exposition and analysis of a text—but the writer herself is always... See more
Elvia Wilk • Fandom as Methodology: On Fan-Nonfiction and Finding the Joy of Mutual Delusion
3. Data ThresholdHow much data do you need to make your product valuable to users? How hard is it to get that dataset — or a dataset like it? If you need a lot of data that is hard to get, that creates a barrier to others competing with you in the future... most Founders overestimate how unique and valuable their dataset is.
NFX • What Makes Data Valuable: The Truth About Data Network Effects
When you look around at all the major candidates for wealth-production frontiers today — blockchains, AI, biotech, renewables — none of them seems capable of producing enough of a grand narrative slipstream to bind today’s complex and large modern societies. So I have to conclude that we’re in for a great deal of antiflocking and divergence.
Venkatesh Rao • Narrative Slipstream Effects
the internet era of culture is a contest between the old model of top-down elite tastemakers telling you what's good and the new numbers-driven viral creator ecosystem in which algorithmic feeds tell you what you like
Kyle Chaykatwitter.com“If standardized time was a fiction more or less driven by capitalism,” writes D’Erasmo, “it might be possible that [internet] atemporality is a fiction more or less driven by capitalism as well.”
Lauren Collee • Temporal Belonging
James Currier • Status, Wealth, & Power: Network Effects Demand A New Social Contract
The problem is that good specialization is exceptionally hard. And mediocre specialization has two core problems:
- It attracts less senior, more tightly defined work that traps you in a mode of repeatable execution work
- It puts you in a well defined box that grinds against your identity
tomcritchlow.com • Rejecting Specialization
"My site is really a record of my becoming who I am. I started so early in my 20s. I didn’t know who I was. I wasn’t doing that much reading then. And it eventually became that. Right now, I rarely read the internet at all. I spend most of my days buried in book piles and letters and diaries and old philosophy books and what not. There’s this term... See more