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I recently discovered a new AI-driven phenomenon: AI-driven YouTube channels that crank out summaries of bestselling books. Since I have a Google Alert set for “Blitzscaling,” I get notified when Google finds new Blitzscaling-related content. A couple of days ago, I received an alert about a new video: It’s trivial now to set up a … Continue reading Standing Out Is Harder (And More Important) Than Ever Before
The late, great Steve Jobs will almost certainly live on as one of the most famous businessmen of all time, on a par with titans like John D. Rockefeller and Henry Ford. He revolutionized industry after industry, and built the most valuable company in the world. That’s why I was fascinated to read some of … Continue reading Steve Jobs, Master Negotiator?
While newspapers have certainly been dying for a long time, I officially called their time of death as 8:25 AM this morning. For the past week or two, I’ve been receiving mysterious phone calls from Missouri. The few times I picked up, no one was on the line. Today, I finally got someone on the … Continue reading RIP, Newspapers
Journalism is dead. Long live fandom. Michael Wolff, an old-school journalist, provides the autopsy in his recent Vanity Fair profile of Politico, the site for political junkies and insiders: The granular and focused and O.C.D. nature of Politico’s view of the world changes the language. Laymen can’t enter this conversation, and the people who are … Continue reading How Fandom Killed Journalism (And Why It’s A Good Thing)
Image courtesy of Steve Jurvetson John Siracusa, a veteran of eBooks for the Palm Pilot (!!!), has a great piece in Ars Technica on “The Once and Future eBook.” It’s a fascinating piece, and it doesn’t hurt that I’m a long-time fan of ebooks. Back in 1999, I even organized a panel on “digital products” … Continue reading “And Then They Died”: The Inevitability of eBooks