1 day agoMember-onlyWhy Meta’s Twitter Clone Will Be Another Copy-and-FailA history of the company’s infamous copy-acquire-kill playbook — Copy-Acquire-Kill. Meta has been deploying this strategy for years, going back to Facebook’s acquisition of Instagram, perhaps even further back, with Facebook being a copy of Myspace and Friendster). In sum, the strategy plays out like so: If you can’t copy the product (likely a competitor), copy its best features…Business6 min readBusiness6 min read
Mar 15Member-onlyThe ‘TikTokification’ Of Everything Needs to StopSpotify is the latest company to copy TikTok — but at what cost? — If you can’t beat them, join them. This phrase appropriately describes the tech industry over the last five years. Innovation has been drying up, replaced by frenzied copying and maniac desperation to implement the current trend into a product, regardless of whether it makes sense to do so. The king…Business4 min readBusiness4 min read
Mar 10Member-onlyI Lived A Privileged PandemicAnd I’ve felt guilty about it ever since. — I would wake up most mornings at 8:00 am, lying there for a moment, taking in the warm sunlight that was stretching across the room, before getting up to make breakfast. The food schedule would tell me it was fruit salad, yogurt, vitamin drink, and a cup of tea —…Pandemic Stories5 min readPandemic Stories5 min read
Mar 6Member-onlyThe A.I. “Grift Shift” Is UnderwayWe’ve burned through a copious amount of ‘next big things’ in the last few years — and the latest one is here — Crypto. NFTs. Metaverse. Web3/Web5. It’s well known that technology moves at breakneck speed, but the last few years have seen the tech industry burn through copious amounts of next “big thing” at record pace. …Business7 min readBusiness7 min read
Feb 28Member-onlyThe Era of Free Social Media Is OverCost of entry is no longer just your attention — If the product is free, you are the product. It’s the defining phrase of the current era of social media. It’s the idea that because we aren’t paying to use the service, we, the users, are the product. The cost of entry is not monetary; it’s our eyeballs and our…Business5 min readBusiness5 min read
Feb 22Member-onlyTo Be the Noun, You Have to Do the VerbYou can’t become something without doing something — Everyone wants to be something. But not everyone wants to put in the work and effort required to become something. Austin Kleon put it best when he wrote, “lots of people want to be the noun without doing the verb.” In part, it’s understandable. It’s great to say that you’re…Entrepreneurship3 min readEntrepreneurship3 min read
Feb 13Member-onlyStop Copying Your HeroesYou won’t find success by mimicking someone else’s life — Sometimes, when I watch someone do what they do best, something happens inside of me. A fire lights in my stomach. My eyes widen. I’m inspired! I immediately hunt down every detail of their journey, so I can implement all their secrets into my own life. You probably see where…Creativity3 min readCreativity3 min read
Feb 1Member-onlyFrom BuzzFeed to Buzzkill: A.I. Is Already Stealing Our Writing JobsHumans out. Robots in. — When ChatGPT reared its artificial head and took the world (read: Twitter threads) by storm, the cynics among us — myself included — feared it would soon steal our writing jobs. When I asked it that very question, its response was less doom-mongering than I expected: “While it is unlikely…Writing4 min readWriting4 min read
Jan 26Member-onlyNFTs Finally Have a Use-Case: A Sewer Game With Bad Poop JokesHave money to flush down the toilet? This one is for you — Every time I write about NFTs, I end with the same logical argument. Until real use cases for the technology appear that are useful to the wider population, it will continue to be a get-rich-quick scheme that very few will get rich from. Well, ask, and you shall receive. On…Nft4 min readNft4 min read
Jan 12Member-onlyBed, Bath & Beyond Saving: The Meme Stocks Are DyingThe meme stocks will soon be penny stocks — What do you get when you mix pandemic-forced lockdowns, stimulus checks, the Reddit sub r/WallStreetBets, access to the entire trading market in the palm of your hand, and a collective desire to disrupt the status quo and stick it to the man? Yup, you guessed it. Meme stocks. This perfect…Business5 min readBusiness5 min read