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“Everyone bifurcates the world into content and distribution,” Whaley told me. He has brown hair, is of average height, and was wearing a nondescript gray t-shirt and jeans when we talked. “From the beginning, we viewed those as the same thing. Each object gets better with more participation, and so does MSCHF. Scale is not the goal. Scale is a too... See more
Evan Armstrong • The Art of Scaling Taste
My latest column at The New Yorker is about the revenge of homepages: Why we're turning toward individual websites as the platform era of the internet continues to disintegrate.
I started working on this piece because I've found myself going to homepages more often. It's a way to get a controlled, curated look at what a publication offers, and a ch... See more
I started working on this piece because I've found myself going to homepages more often. It's a way to get a controlled, curated look at what a publication offers, and a ch... See more
I’ve tended to think of social networks as being built by people assembling a graph of people bottoms up, but perhaps I’ve been too narrow-minded. TikTok might not qualify by that definition, but it feels social, with FYP as village matchmaker.
Eugene Wei • American Idle — Remains of the Day
Curators Are the New Creators. The Business Model of Good Taste | by Gaby Goldberg | Medium
Gaby Goldberggabygoldberg.medium.com
Every person now has a choice at any moment in time for how to entertain themselves and they're always going to go to the best option because it's one tap away on their phone
Eugene Wei • Eugene Wei – Tech, Media, and Culture - [Invest Like the Best, EP.117]
“Overcrowding” dynamic within networks. More users and more content mean that you need to bring in features like search, algorithmic feeds, curation tools, and a plethora of other tools to manage this. If you don’t solve this problem, then users will start to leave, potentially preferring competitive products that are smaller but more curated.
Andrew Chen • The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects
In my six years at Google, I got to observe this force up close, relentlessly killing features users loved and eroding the last vestiges of creativity and agency from our products. I know this force well, and I hate it, but I do not yet know how to fight it. I call this force the Tyranny of the Marginal User .
Simply put, companies building apps hav... See more
Simply put, companies building apps hav... See more
Ivan Vendrov • The Tyranny of the Marginal User
Expanded to allow anybody to stream but the ‘everyday life’ content wasn’t gaining traction
Tim Ferriss • #550: Andrew Chen — Metaverse, Metrics, and Meerkats
Algorithmic recommendations dictate genres of culture by rewarding particular tropes with promotion in feeds, based on what immediately attracts the most attention.
In 2018, the writer Liz Pelly identified "streambait" as one such genre: the "muted, mid-tempo, melancholy pop" characteristic of Spotify. In 2019, the writer Jia Tolentino similarly ide
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