👋 On time for your weekend: a weekly round-up of what was written or said at the intersection of #technology, #business, #design and #organisation, and stood out.
📚 Reading
What Everyone Got Wrong About ‘the Long Tail’:
[..] any disappointment comes from a fundamental misreading of the book, which never promised that artists could make money in the Long Tail. Rather, he wrote from the beginning that the real money would go to the aggregators — the companies who could reap the rewards from the entire area under the long-tail curve, not the narrow vertical slices representing each creator.
🤔 There’s perhaps more to reap than just financial rewards—Marker
In Praise of the Gods:
Alchemy tells us this: Real science is not about consensus or expertise, but about process and belief. A belief in the ignorance of experts: It is never a mistake to question what we think we know about the past, or the fundamentals of any realm. And a belief that the earth still holds secrets [..] These beliefs, the handmaidens of creation, are what you must hold if you wish to make discoveries.
😌 Real Science needs a bit of TLC —Simon Sarris
Signal curation:
Your sources of information have enormous influence on what you think, how deeply you think, and how you solve problems. Be deliberate about how you choose them. Avoid free sources of information, companies that give away free clients, and large media organizations. Read twenty good books per year, subscribe to niche communities, mute low quality signal from high quality sources…
🤭 Maybe not avoid all free sources—Zero Credibility
🎧 Listening
The Uncertainty Mindset:
If you go all the way to the other end and you fail horrifically, you never want to come back. If you fail just a little bit or just sometimes because it's slightly beyond your reach [..] that's deliberate practice and it's deliberate practice because your always failing but never failing horrifically. There's kind of a meta expertise here and that's the ability to be productively uncomfortable.
Vaughn Tan—The Wicked Podcast
We're Finally Getting off The Treadmill:
The old system, the one we have been on for the last century, is the treadmill of productivity and work. Always filling up our time with more and more stuff, and more and more work. The world we have the opportunity to head into, is going to look the exact opposite. Technology will remove more and more of our roles and duties and work we have to do…
David Sherry—Art $ Attention
Twitter, TikTok, and Tech in the Time of Biden:
Tech is now an industry with a lot of power, and that power attracts the attention of government and regulators [..] politics and tech are going to be linked so long as technology is driving the economy.
Hunter Walk—Big Technology Podcast
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