Category: Creator Economy
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10 Charts That Capture How the World Is Changing
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 10 Charts That Capture How the World Is Changing My colleague Damir and his brother Dino have been hosting a series of New York dinners in which they ask each…
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Nine Techniques to Come up with Life-Changing Concepts, Easily
https://www.discovery-studios.com/ People think I’m an idea-generating machine. It’s true that I never run out of ideas, but not because I’m smart. What makes idea generation effortless for me is one belief: Everything is connected to everything. I don’t let labels, niches, critics, or boundaries place a limiting valve on my imagination. I can take a…
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Making “Passive” Income Isn’t Hard- Here’s the Backdoor System to Do It.
https://www.discovery-studios.com/ Passive income is an R-rated topic online. If you even mention it you’ll get slapped across the head with a brick. How do I know? I accidentally walked over the tripwire and did it. Oopsie. Passive income is controversial because it assumes you sit on your ass and let magic do the work for…
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We’re Exhausted by Doomerism Stories and “Societal Discussions”
https://www.discovery-studios.com/ Just shut the hell up. Seriously, doomerism has become big business. Dumb d*cks do it to get cheap clicks. Doomerism became a popular word again thanks to researcher Hannah Ritchie from Oxford University and the popular article she wrote. It describes people who are overly pessimistic or fatalist on issues such as humans going…
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Name that tune: How melody matching discovers more earnings for songwriters
https://www.discovery-studios.com/ Songwriters are the foundation of the music industry, and yet they have to fight the hardest for their royalties. Not only do they make three times less than recording artists on streaming royalties, they also lack extra income sources such as touring, and it’s more difficult to track uses of their copyrights online, limiting…
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Are NFTs the Future of Subscriptions?
https://www.discovery-studios.com/ Join 20,000+ others who get my thoughts about creators, communities, and web3 — in as few words as possible, no more than twice a month. Subscribe now Dear subscribers, Many creators and brands rely on subscriptions to make a living. But traditional subscriptions are built on platforms that could change rates and policies at…
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The 7 Heavenly Virtues 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 Heavenly Virtues of Consumer Technology Last week, I wrote about the Seven Deadly Sins Framework—the idea that every consumer company is built on one or more of the…
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Dan Romero (Farcaster): Structure a Web3 Social Network for Thoughtful Conversations
https://www.discovery-studios.com/ Join 35,000+ others who get my thoughts on product, tech, and creators — in as few words as possible, no more than twice a month. Subscribe now Dear subscribers, There’s never been a better time to build a new social network. Dan Romero is the co-founder of Farcaster, a “sufficiently decentralized social network” that’s…
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The Rise of the Digitally-Native Job
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 Rise of the Digitally-Native Job Walmart is the largest private employer in the United States, and the second-largest overall employer after the federal government. Globally, Walmart employs 2.3 million…
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10 Pieces of Money Advice I Would Offer to My 21 Year Old Self.
https://www.discovery-studios.com/ Most people don’t know Hitler had one testicle. That’s one reason why he was such an angry bastard. Perhaps that’s even why he went on to commit some of the worst crimes in history. When we’re in a Hitler-like state of anger we make terrible financial decisions. I wish I had known this as…
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