A Primer on the Parasocial Economy - Cybernaut
“One aspect of the creator economy I’ve found curiously under-explored is precisely why fans pay their favorite creators; both indirectly in attention”
Revenue generating idea for Facebook: I will pay lots of dollars a month, maybe even $3, for any of your apps to never show me a red dot or notification ever again.
Honestly, if you saw Nate become (redacted) in the season two finale of Ted Lasso you’re officially smarter than me.
Luna just found out that polar bears and dogs can be friends and it’s like that scene in Ted Lasso when the billionaire tells Banksy and Sam that they both just met a cool person.
I’ve been on the job hunt for a while now and I’m open to new roles that might benefit from a set of skills someone like me has. Here’s my resume … I figure that if you follow me here you might have insight into who I am and maybe that’s helpful?
Fairlane
Thanks
Ever since they named me Person of the Year 2006 I knew that this Time magazine thing might go somewhere
Why You Should Stop Reading News
“We spend hours consuming news because we want to be informed. The problem is news doesn’t make us informed. In fact, the more news we consume the more misinformed we become.
“The more you create, the more powerful you become. The more you consume, the more powerful others become.”
– James Clear
There are two ways of making a living. The familiar, predictable way, and a Pareto style payoff.
“This Pareto world is extremely competitive, random, and highly unpredictable.”
Tyre shop guy: we’ve got tyres in that size from brand blah blah we’ve got the bluh bluhs and from brand ughh we have their gobble gobbles and the crapshoots.
Me: I’ll take the whatsamacallits from whosiewhatsit, because trust me, I know a lot about tyres.
“Either we are the makers of our future or we’re the victims. And if we don’t understand these fundamental components of how the world works, our actions may undermine our goals as well as the people around us.”
There needs to be some sort of 1300 Hotline situation for people whose partners and families are antivaxxers. They are dealing with so much bullshit it’s like fighting a bushfire. We need pamphlets people!
This website is doing god’s work canyonmid.com … please enjoy
“There is always more surface to a shattered object than a whole.”
Djuna Barnes to Emily Coleman, 1960, The Book of Repulsive Women and Other Poems.
If you’re wondering what it looks like when you take your wife’s keys and they’re on the Find My Network …
I would pay at least $5, maybe even $6, to be able to log in to my old ICQ account (49739400), IRC servers, or my old MSN Messenger account, and scroll through those awkward chat logs. I’m barely confident today. Back then I was a hot mess.
Why is it called a podcast? I love that the iPod hackers paved the way. Thanks @podnews for compiling everything together,
Deconstructing Christianity
Deconstructing your Christianity. A few links for friends.
Four episodes of The Naked Church podcast, episodes eight, nine, ten, and eleven.
The Irresistible Revolution by Shane Claiborne started ruining everything for me over a decade ago.
The Universal Christ, by Richard Rohr.
Finding God in the Waves, by Mike McHargue.
Rob Bell’s Everything is Spiritual.
Love Matters More by Jared Byas.
Comedy Sex God by Pete Holmes plus everything Pete Holmes has ever done including the TV show, Crashing, which is amazing.
And finally, The Liturgists podcast, which went full deconstruction years ago and came around again. Listen to it all, it’s a wild ride.
Deconstructing and rebuilding your faith is an interesting journey, and the best is yet to come.