Category: Creator Economy
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This Is Water: Reviewing 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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A needs-driven method to music NFT metadata
https://www.discovery-studios.com/ At Water & Music, we’ve extensively detailed the growth and evolution of the music NFT market over the past few years. Our recent sales report showed that music NFTs did over $86M in primary sales revenue in 2021, and the market has continued to expand since. Despite a relative macro market downturn as we…
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Index Viewpoints: From Figma to Video Gaming to the marketplace Downturn
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, the Index team is gathering in New York to spend time together as a team and to formally launch our NYC office. I’m going…
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The Most Addictive Drug Is Making Money Doing Something You Love.
https://www.discovery-studios.com/ It’s like heroin. Getting paid for work you’d happily do for free is the best feeling in the world. I’ve been lucky to reach this goal. I want more people to experience this. Here’s what it’s like and how to get paid doing sh*t you love (hat-tilt to Alex Hormozi for the quote in…
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What I’m Doing as the Economic Crisis Becomes Worse (To Avoid Going Broke).
https://www.discovery-studios.com/ A nuclear war isn’t how I thought I’d start fatherhood. Only a few weeks until I become a dad. Yet the madman in charge of the largest country in the world could release his rockets, although I doubt it. Reagan found a way to get Gorbachev to take a chill pill. Same with the…
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Your Objective Without Execution … Is Just a Naughty Dream.
https://www.discovery-studios.com/ The young man was more inspirational than Nelson Mandela. I bumped into him when I started a new job. “Welcome Timbo, we’re going to do amazing things together.” The hairs on the back of my neck stood up. He made me believe I could do anything. We watched Ted Talks together during our breaks.…
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The Psychology of the best Writers Online.
https://www.discovery-studios.com/ Great writers don’t write well. They think in a beautiful way. This thinking is a result of their psychology that they’ve carefully refined, like carving a sculpture out of a wooden log for 5 years every day. So much of the writing world doesn’t make sense. It’s a psychological game, not a technical one.…
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You’re Missing the Point About Elon’s Purchase of Twitter.
https://www.discovery-studios.com/ Elon is the guy everyone loves to hate. Sometimes he makes my blood boil and I want to throw a small brick at his face in protest. But other times he sends chills down my spine. Every time he launches one of those big-daddy rockets of his, I get all hot and bothered. Through…
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Is Web3 an Option Seeking a Problem?
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, I recently wrote about how we can build web3 onramps for the next 1 billion people. But I didn’t cover why people should care about…
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Which Grammy winners fared best on social media?
https://www.discovery-studios.com/ Music’s biggest night aired this past Sunday, and while not as controversial as the Academy Awards, the Grammys was still full of memorable moments, both good and bad. The touching tributes to Stephen Sondheim and Taylor Hawkins, along with the inspiring message from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy were welcome highlights. Despite past controversies, millions…
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