Stratechery · Ben Thompson
ConstitutionDAO, The Need for Trust, Memes and Reality
ConstitutionDAO is an interesting project to buy a physical good as a community; what is particularly interesting is what it says about the power of actualizing memes
2021
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Press Watch · Dan Froomkin
I am thankful for journalists who bring clarity to our times
I am particularly grateful for mainstream journalists who help the public understand the most important, troubling, and sometimes intentionally misconstrued issues facing the nation. The post I am thankful for journalists who bring clarity to our times appeared first on Press Watch.
Stratechery · Ben Thompson
Zillow Shuts Down Offers; Where Zillow Went Wrong; Reflecting on Zillow, Aggregation, and Integration
Zillow is ending Zillow Offers; where did the company go wrong, and what my initial analysis got right, and what I missed.
The Art of Non-Conformity
The Latest in Travel Hacking
In what now feels like a previous life, I used to travel around the world almost every month. I slowed down a bit two years before the pandemic started, but I still took time for an international trip every six weeks at most. I was also involved in the early days of the "travel hacking" world. I founded a service,…
Monday Note - Medium · Frederic Filloux
What Makes Elon Musk Move So Fast
Pixel Envy · Nick Heer
Mela Is a New Cooking App From the Creator of Reeder
John Voorhees, MacStories: Silvio Rizzi, the developer of RSS client Reeder, has released a brand new recipe and cooking app called Mela for the iPhone, iPad, and Mac, which has immediately become my favorite apps for planning and preparing meals. For me, the two essential aspects of an app like this are how it…
Stratechery · Ben Thompson
Instagram Exclusive Content, Value Chain Conflicts, Facebook Bulletin
Exclusive Content on Instagram, like Super Tweets, is a compelling product for both the company and creators. It's also why Bulletin is more compelling than it seems.
Popular Information · Judd Legum
Before Florida COVID surge, major media outlets lionized DeSantis
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis during the UFC 261 press conference on April 22, 2021, in Jacksonville, Florida. (Photo by Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC) For months, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) has governed his state as if COVID did not exist. But he didn't just ignore the problem. DeSantis acted to prevent others in his…
Platformer · Casey Newton
President Biden goes after Facebook
How the debate over vaccine misinformation hit a stalemate
Rands in Repose · rands
Ask for Help
An inability to ask for help is not the domain of introverts. We certainly make it a more laborious mental process, but in any group of humans where there are those who know and those who are learning, the latter population is hesitant to ask for help because they don't want to appear dumb to those who have clearly…
Stratechery · Ben Thompson
Shopify Lowers Developer Fees, Scaling Digital Suppliers, The Power of App Stores
Shopify is lowering fees for developers, which makes sense given it is operating an app store, the Internet's most powerful business model.
Dave Trott's Blog · Dave Trott
TELL US WHAT, NOT HOW
Ranulph Fienes was the first person to circumnavigate the globe by the polar route. He was the first person to cross Antarctica on foot. He was the oldest person to climb Everest, at 65. He’s completed countless endurance … Continue reading → The post TELL US WHAT, NOT HOW first appeared on Dave Trott's Blog.
Pixel Envy · Nick Heer
⌥ Some Digital Packrattery
A recent piece by Doc Searls was the inspiration for today’s post: The best new phones come with the ability to shoot 108 megapixel photos, record 4K video with stereo sound, and pack the results into a terabyte of onboard storage. But what do you do when that storage fills up? If you want to […]
Popular Information · Judd Legum
Trump attempted a coup. Now there are emails that prove it.
After he lost the election, Trump attempted a coup to keep himself in power. Trump hasn't been successful — but his no-holds-barred effort to overturn the election continues.
Letters from an American · Heather Cox Richardson
June 15, 2021
This morning, the Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released a series of emails and documents that show just how hard former president Trump worked to overturn the 2020 election and retain an illegal grip on power. On December 14, 2020, which was the day electors in each state certified the votes of the…
Dave Trott's Blog · Dave Trott
LANGUAGE VERSUS HOT-AIR
During lockdown, I got sick of hearing people complain that it was driving them mad to go without their holidays. This is/was the worst global plague in a hundred years, but magazines and papers were full of articles … Continue reading → The post LANGUAGE VERSUS HOT-AIR first appeared on Dave Trott's Blog.
Letters from an American · Heather Cox Richardson
April 29, 2021
Today marks the hundredth day of the Biden-Harris administration. In many ways, the hundred-day mark is arbitrary, a holdover from the presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who worked with Congress to pass 76 new laws by the end of his first 100 days, setting a high bar for a consequential presidency. A hundred…
Stratechery by Ben Thompson Member Feed · Ben Thompson
Sovereign Writers and Substack
Substack is at the center of media controversy, most of which misses the point that sovereign writers — not Substack — are in control.
Waxy.org · Andy Baio
Everest Pipkin on the environmental issues of cryptoart and NFTs
"Proof of work places a direct lien against the future." #
Daring Fireball · Daring Fireball Department of Commerce
[Sponsor] Mux Video
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow · Cory Doctorow
Pluralistic: 04 Jan 2021
Today's links Ad-tech is a bezzle: The subprime attention crisis is upon us. Google's unionizing: Solidarity vs worker misclassification. The Data Detective: How to truth with statistics. Damon Knight's Why Do Birds is back: Reviving a grand master's comic masterpiece. Endorsing the Forward 43 slate: For my…