Category: Creator Economy
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After the drop: Determining the lifetime value of music NFTs
https://www.discovery-studios.com/ tl;dr: This article presents an analysis of secondary sales and trading activity across several notable, multi-edition music NFT drops from late 2021 to mid-2022. As part of our analysis, we also develop a starting metrics framework for evaluating and comparing different music NFT drops over time. In particular, we focus on highlighting music NFT collector…
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Digitally-Native Jobs, Self-Employment, and the Antiwork Motion
https://www.discovery-studios.com/ This is a weekly newsletter about how tech and culture intersect. To receive Digital Native in your inbox each week, subscribe here: Subscribe now Digitally-Native Jobs, Self-Employment, and the Antiwork Movement In the 2010s, “the future of work” became a bit of a VC trope. I’m as guilty as anyone. Everyone loves a good…
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What’s the Right Organization Design for Excellent Writing?
https://www.discovery-studios.com/ Join 20,000+ others who get my thoughts about creators, communities, and crypto — in as few words as possible, no more than twice a month. Subscribe now Dear subscribers, What’s the right business model for good writing? Many platforms have strong opinions about how writers should make a living: Advertising remains the go-to model…
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The 7 Deadly Sins of Consumer Technology
https://www.discovery-studios.com/ This is a weekly newsletter about how tech and culture intersect. To receive Digital Native in your inbox each week, subscribe here: Subscribe now The Seven Deadly Sins of Consumer Technology The seven deadly sins are a classification of our most fundamental vices—the negative personal characteristics that are human nature, and that we all…
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Side Hustle Lessons That Conserved My Life.
https://www.discovery-studios.com/ Without a side hustle, I’d still be drowning in corporate buzzwords. Ohhhh the pain. So draining. Years of my life wasted. Learning these lessons I’m about to share definitely helped me harness a side hustle and take my life to the next level. Perhaps they can do the same for you. The “Good Life”…
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Creator Lean Canvas
https://www.discovery-studios.com/ Join 20,000+ others who get my thoughts about creators, communities, and crypto — in as few words as possible, once or twice a month. Subscribe now Dear subscribers, The creator lean canvas is a framework that gives you one place to answer the most important questions about your creator business. If you’re a creator…
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Mad Realities and the Increase of User-Owned Material
https://www.discovery-studios.com/ This is a weekly newsletter about how tech and culture intersect. To receive Digital Native in your inbox each week, subscribe here: Subscribe now Hey Everyone 👋 , This week’s piece is the second in a series about web3 startups that pique my interest and that are pushing forward the broader ecosystem. The first…
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This Is Water: Reviewing Social Constructs (Part 2).
https://www.discovery-studios.com/ This is a weekly newsletter about how tech and culture intersect. To receive Digital Native in your inbox each week, subscribe here: Subscribe now This Is Water (Part 2) Last week in Part 1, I shared the opening parable to David Foster Wallace’s 2005 commencement address at Kenyon College: There are these two young…
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This Is How I’m Growing My Newsletter on Auto-Pilot to 200,000 Without Making New Content.
https://www.discovery-studios.com/ Without an email list there is a Berlin Wall between you and your audience. An email list is a sledgehammer that collapses that wall. If you choose not to have one then you’re reliant on platforms that can limit your reach to favor ads or that may even go out of business. Followers mean…
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Work 60 Hours a Week. Burn Out. Reach the Verge of Mental Exhaustion. Then Get Fired to Save a Few Dollars.
https://www.discovery-studios.com/ The idea of a 9-5 job makes me cry. When you slice and dice it, it’s a hodgepodge of hot mess. The headline of this article comes from fellow writer Justin Welsh. His LinkedIn post bricked me in the face when I read it. Let’s rip the heads off his ideas and then go…
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