Part 1: For the day job Things to think about: Digital media carnage The Internet Isn’t Meant To Be So Small The IP Era’s Venture Capital Philosophy Has Poisoned Movies How to Discover The Real Insights That Increase Sales Reference points: The 100 greatest video games of all time, ranked by experts 23 Pandemic Decisions That…

Part 1: For the day job Things to think about: Is There Life After Influencing? People Are Grinding Netflix Shows To Prevent Them From Getting Canceled RIP Metaverse Reference points: How companies make it difficult to unsubscribe Longer reads: The Ultimate Oral History Of BuzzFeed News CEO Andy Jassy’s 2022 Letter to Shareholders To Monopolise Our…

Part 1: For the day job Things to think about: Social media is doomed to die Drake’s AI clone is here — and Drake might not be able to stop him Chasing rainbows Why are TV writers so miserable? Reference points: A Very Gentle Introduction to Large Language Models without the Hype A Map of Places…

Part 1: For the day job Things to think about: The Internet of the 2010s Ended Today A Grand Unified Theory of Why Elon Musk Is So Unfunny The Influencer Industry Is Having an Existential Crisis The case for banning children from social media How Elon Musk Turned the Blue Check Mark Into a Scarlet Letter …

Part 1: For the day job Things to think about: Is TikTok Actually Creating More One-Hit Wonders? … And You’re Watching the Disney Channel With ‘Love is Blind’ misstep, Netflix inadvertently makes a case for old-fashioned TV Reference points: Do Hollywood Flops Kill Movie Careers? A Statistical Analysis. What films should we teach? A conversation about…

Part 1: For the day job Things to think about: Why the Floppy Disk Just Won’t Die Big Tech’s big downgrade At PayPal, I once wasted $1M on a marketing segmentation to build personas What TikTok’s confessional GRWM videos say about our culture of oversharing Influencer Parents and The Kids Who Had Their Childhood Made Into…

Part 1: For the day job Things to think about: Netflix’s Approach Shifts, Pushing Content That Can ‘Pop’ Beyond ‘Wednesday’ and ‘Outer Banks’: How Netflix is looking to be the new CW for Gen Z BuzzFeed Is Quietly Publishing Whole AI-Generated Articles, Not Just Quizzes All mixed up ‘Hot Ones’ Was a Slow Burn All Along …

Part 1: For the day job Things to think about: The Girl Internet and the Boy Internet Big Tech’s big downgrade Inside the NBA’s Great Generation War ChatGPT is a blurry JPEG of the web The universal remote is streaming’s most tragic casualty The TikTok ban is a betrayal of the open internet We Spoke To…

Part 1: For the day job Things to think about: What the NBA Can Learn From Formula 1 How the Great Recession paved the way for influencers to inherit the earth Microsoft just laid off one of its responsible AI teams A 24/7 Twitch Stream of AI-Generated Celebrities Is Even Weirder Than It Seems Reference points: …