Category: Creator Economy
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Talking Store: The Change of 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 Talking Shop: The Transformation of Commerce There’s a Vladimir Lenin quote that goes, “There are decades when nothing happens, and there are weeks when decades happen.” This quote was trotted…
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Building Attribution Engine: How R.
https://www.discovery-studios.com/ This is the second installment in a series of blogs that detail how and why we built our Attribution Engine. Missed the first blog on our product principles? Catch up here At Pex, we are committed to investing in research and development and building state-of-the-art content identification technology into our product. I find it…
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Alexis Ohanian on openness, the power of neighborhood, and sticking to your vision
https://www.discovery-studios.com/ TAKEAWAYS: Content policies should be explicit from the get-go. “I really think what we’ll see in the next five years is content policies that have confidence and are leading instead of reacting.” Businesses have the right to put their foot down when facing dilemmas such as platforming hate groups. They’re not always easy…
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Myspace, Tumblr, and the Long-Lost Weirdness of the Social Web
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 Myspace, Tumblr, and the Long-Lost Weirdness of the Social Internet Last week, Facebook Meta shares dropped 26% in a single day, erasing $250 billion in market cap—the largest single-day drop…
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Is Play to Earn Gaming a Ponzi Plan?
https://www.discovery-studios.com/ Dear subscribers, Some of my fondest memories are from gaming – killing demons in Diablo, traveling through time in Chrono Trigger, and fighting space battles in Starcraft. As a lifelong gamer, I’ve often lamented as mobile gaming’s rise came with a focus on monetization at the sacrifice of fun. I’m not alone. Diablo Immortal…
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10 Attributes That Specify Gen Z (Part II).
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 👋 , Tomorrow we’re hosting the inaugural Index Gaming Summit. As I’ve written about in Digital Native, gaming is the largest media category (~$200B in revenue, bigger than…
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A Meaning for Your Life Is the Ultimate High-end.
https://www.discovery-studios.com/ The meaning of life is whatever the heck you want it to mean. It’s amazing how we can cruise through life with our meaning tank running on empty. I witnessed that in a friend. She always chased career success and money. One day she got diagnosed with cancer. Things went downhill way faster than…
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While Everyone Is Seeing Netflix, Effective People Embrace the 2% Frame of mind.
https://www.discovery-studios.com/ Achieving extraordinary results isn’t the lottery. There’s no luck. Some kind gentleman with a pink bow tie and a polite British accent doesn’t say “here you go Sir/Madam, now be on your way chappy and bless the world with your gifts.” Nope. That’s a naughty fantasy I just had about what I wish success…
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Eleven Short Money Lessons to Become an Automatic Millionaire
https://www.discovery-studios.com/ Technically we’re all going to be millionaires because of inflation. Money is becoming worthless. One dollar used to buy you a whole lot more. When I was a kid growing up in Australia, $200k got you a great home. The same home now costs $2m. This is what inflation does. It distorts the value…
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These Bizarre Paradoxes Can Modify How You Think for the Rest of Your Life.
https://www.discovery-studios.com/ Most of us are brainwashed in at least one area of life. (Even me.) Paradoxes are how we snap out of our programming and consider an alternative. This thinking leads to enormous opportunities later on, if done right. Many of the best truths in life are contradictory. It’s only once you live these truths…
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