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Ideas from George Mack:
1. Subprime audience - A creator optimising for size of audience and ending up with a junk audience. They end up producing content they themselves wouldn’t consume.
2. The forgetting paradox - Wordle outperformed every headline in society's consciousness for 2022. All the news everyone was worried outlasted by a novelty game..
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Today, business is held fast in this paradox: the more “business” we do and the more we think solely in terms of “business,” the more we structure human exchange according to the precepts of yesterday’s paradigm; the less wealth we create, and often, the more wealth we destroy.
Umair Haque • Betterness: Economics for Humans (Kindle Single)
What – and who – is a city for?
policyoptions.irpp.org
Here then is my modern twist on eudaimonia, how I might put paid to the idea of “faring well.” A good life is about more than quantity of gross product, denominated in nominal income. It’s about net real wealth. And real wealth, in turn, consists of much more than mere money.