Topic
media
- Escape The Algorithm
Wrote this week about the problems with feeds, algorithmic discovery, and passively letting the machines define your taste. We all need a return to active participation in what we consume.
- Escape the Algorithm
In this latest issue of Res Extensa, I wrote about the need to escape from the passive consumption trap. We wake up, pick up the phone, and wait for algorithms to tell us what to read, watch, and listen to. Our attent…
- The Prophet of the Revolt
Of this year's reads so far, Martin Gurri still holds the crown on my favorite with his 2014 book The Revolt of the Public. That book has the best diagnosis of the current state of politics, the culture war, polarizat…
- Newsletters, Bundles, and Indie Publishing
In his latest issue of The Diff, Byrne Hobart looks the economic models behind the boom in independent publishing and unbundling of analysis and journalism happening on platforms like Substack: Bundles tend to grow un…
- Weekend Reading: Commercial Imagery, Proof Mechanisms, and Cinematic Universes
🌏 The Commercial Satellite Imagery Business Model is Broken My friend Joe Morrison's latest is an extended rant on the commercial satellite imagery market, and a plea to that industry to rethink how they might improv…
- The Future of Media: Movies, the Metaverse, and More
An interview with media and gaming industry analyst Matthew Ball. Make sure to listen to his thoughts on metaverses (around the 34:00 mark). The section on Epic Games and the future trajectory they're putting themselv…
- Matthew Ball on Nintendo
Matthew Ball dives into Nintendo's potential and what differentiates its culture from the rest of its media and gaming comparisons, like Disney. The section on their mobile performance is particularly shocking. I knew…
- Weekend Reading: Disintermediating Media, Boring Tech, and DIY Lights
📨 Disintermediating the media with… Substack? Jerry Brito writes about the growth of independent writing on Substack, prompted by a Mike Solana tweet: From a technical perspective, Substack does not belong on Solana’…
- Weekend Reading: Children of Men, Google Earth at 15, and Slate Star Codex is Gone
📽 How Children of Men Became a Dystopian Masterpiece I didn’t realize until reading this piece that this movie was a commercial flop. $70m gross on a $76m budget. I remember seeing this several times in theaters, and…
- Martin Gurri on EconTalk
I've been following Gurri's work closely since I read The Revolt of a Public a couple months back. I think he's one of the sharpest minds we have right now thinking and writing about what's going on in politics, media…
- Dithering and Podcast Subscriptions
A couple weeks ago Ben Thompson and John Gruber launched Dithering, a new podcast they’re doing together with a unique model: 15 minutes per episode, 3 times a week, only for paid subscribers. They launched with a doz…
- Ben Thompson's Daily Update Podcast
Ben Thompson's Stratechery is one of the must-read newsletters out there. I've been a subscriber and avid reader for 4 years now, and I think I've read every post he's published since then. Lately I'm finding I get be…