Category: Creator Economy
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Investing in Beam: Gen Z, Social Impact, and Commerce
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 👋 , Digital Native is going out a day late this week to coincide with the announcement of a Series A investment we’re leading at Index in a…
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Pick your own adventure: A music metaverse course finder
https://www.discovery-studios.com/ This report is part of our Season 2 research on music in the metaverse, which will be rolling out from July 7 to 15, 2022. You can follow along with the rollout at stream.waterandmusic.com, and/or navigate directly to our previous installments: 9 design principles for a musical metaverse 3 ways to bring your music into…
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The 2022 Crypto Credit Crisis Explained
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, The global crypto market has lost $1.2 trillion dollars since April 2022 and multiple crypto companies are facing bankruptcy. Just WTF happened? Yes, inflation is…
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This Is Water: Revisiting Social Constructs
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 There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, “Morning,…
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Satisfying in the musical metaverse: Expectations vs. reality
https://www.discovery-studios.com/ tl;dr — Over the course of two months, the Water & Music research community demoed eight different metaverse platforms, ranging from established games to emerging startups, to gain an understanding of the general user experience provided by each of these platforms and how they might appear to everyday users and music fans. We took notes…
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Tim Ferriss’s Assistant’s Sudden Resignation Acts as a Warning for Trying to Have It All.
https://www.discovery-studios.com/ Timbo Ferriss got famous for telling us we could work 4-hour workweeks. I’m not into the digital nomad life, so I’ll leave you to judge his philosophy. Admittedly, he says he’s matured beyond this 4-hour workweek view of the world. Still, Tim has had plenty of wild success. The truth about influential people like…
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The Unfair Truth About How Contrarians (Really) Succeed
https://www.discovery-studios.com/ Contrarians are naughty little buggers. They reject or fight popular opinions. They take the red pill — made famous by the Matrix movies — and choose a willingness to learn and be uncomfortable. In the 2020s, a modern contrarian looks completely different. Here’s what they do. Eat food that doesn’t come in a box I used to love frying…
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Eleven Mental Ideas Everybody Should Know to End Up Being Smarter.
https://www.discovery-studios.com/ I’m not the brightest bloke. People sometimes think I am because I write a lot. But writing doesn’t make you smart — thinking does. And writing makes you a better thinker, so you seem smarter than you naturally are and appear to have a higher IQ. Here are some killer psychological ideas I’ve found that can…
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Here’s How to Outperform 99% of Individuals at Work.
https://www.discovery-studios.com/ The modern workplace is a circus. People stabbing each other in the back. Regular firings. Employees angrily walking out after having enough. Layers of gossip. Bad bosses. Departments that do work no one understands the value of. It’s easy to drown your consciousness out with all the noise. A leader I once worked with…
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I’ve Composed 5000 Blog Articles That Produced 500m Views
https://www.discovery-studios.com/ Writing is bloody simple when you know how to stand out. My work stood out, mostly, because I’m a giant weirdo from Australia with a face only a mother could love. I’m cool with that. None of the stats in the headline are supposed to wow you or make me sound special. I tell…
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