Category: Creator Economy
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Developer 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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From ZKPs to the future of music/Web3: What we discovered at DevCon

https://www.discovery-studios.com/ Last week, several Water & Music community members attended DevCon in Bogotá, Colombia to take the pulse on the cutting edge of global Ethereum development. For the uninitiated: DevCon is one of the largest Ethereum developer conferences in the world, featuring advanced talks and workshops from a global slate of Web3 developers, DAO leaders,…
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This Is Water: Revisiting 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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Customer Social Is Dead. Long Live Customer Social.

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 Consumer Social Is Dead. Long Live Consumer Social. Coming up on two years ago—in January 2021—I wrote in The Evolution of Social Media about the framework I use to think…
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Growing from Product Manager to Item Leader

https://www.discovery-studios.com/ Dear subscribers, There’s a lot of advice out there for early career product managers. But mid-career PMs and managers often need more help. Ethan is a former Amazon VP and one of the best product leaders that I know. In the interview below, we cover: How to get promoted How to deal with setbacks…
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You Do not Have to Make Money Online. However Never Forget a Job Makes You Painfully Disposable.

https://www.discovery-studios.com/ If you don’t make money online you’re a bum. That’s what some would have you believe. I’m not one of them. I’ve spent most of my life working 9-5 jobs with a smile on my dial. Quitting your job to make internet money is nice. Telling everyone how you’re an entrepreneur now and too…
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What’s Truly Frightening Isn’t the Unidentified, It’s Not Knowing Due To The Fact That You Never Offered It a Shot.

https://www.discovery-studios.com/ Business scares me. There I said it. I keep thinking I’m going to go back to a job. “One wrong move and you’re outta here pal” is the self-talk. The recession scares the pants off me too. A few European banks are looking like they could fail. Add the threat of a nuclear war…
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One Of The Most Productive Individuals I Know Have These Simple Habits.

https://www.discovery-studios.com/ Poon survived 33 days alone in the middle of the sea. In 1942 the British merchant ship he boarded got torpedoed by a German U-boat. Super unlucky. As the ship sank Poon managed to get a lifejacket on. After 2 hours in the water he climbed aboard a floating raft. Some drinking water supplies,…
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Social Rules to Follow so You Do Not Come Across as a Rude Jerk.

https://www.discovery-studios.com/ Being polite can get you far in life. My 104-year-old grandma insisted on it. She taught me to say please and thank you no matter how insignificant it felt. It’s funny when my wife tells me I have average intelligence but am incredibly street-smart. She regularly asks me to navigate difficult social situations and…
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The 2022 Crypto Credit Crisis Explained

https://www.discovery-studios.com/ Join 30,000+ others who get my thoughts about creators, crypto, and tech — 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…