Things I’ve written or am circling — drafts, arguments, and internet rabbit holes made legible.

4 items under this folder.

  • Elon Musk x Twitter

    Elon Musk plans on growing Twitter’s users from 217m (2021) to 931m in 2028 according to a pitch deck seen by the NYT in May www.nytimes.com/2022/05/06/technology/elon-musk-twitter-pitch-deck.html An incremental 714m for context is: 36% of FB’s DAU (1.97b Q2’22) 206% of Snap’s DAU (347m Q2’22) 1373%...

  • mimetic desire

    is everyone becoming a DJ? commodification of XYZ YT blogger DJs pathways to fame prioritisation of capital+wealth above all else preferential attachment societal assumption that money = contribution to society / value created CP: negative externalities, Koch brothers, etc.

  • war for attention

    gradual changes feeds from chronological to recommended content from non-friends story saturation Nov 2020: “Facebook has increased the number of ads served on its platforms by a quarterly average of nearly 30% year on year since the third quarter of 2015.” reel saturation Q4 Earnings, Zuckerberg “[...

  • web3 tweets

    value of ETH what is the value of a deflationary decentralised compute network? once all the speculation is gone, what is a hard non debased currency worth betting on? pet longevity what do chocolate bars and dogs have in common? more than you might think… and here’s why Mars.