"Publishing" is a word that no longer makes sense. When anyone can create and share anything, anywhere, at any time, and to anyone, what does it mean to publish?
The role of publishing must take on a new one: curation. Curation is the missing piece of the creator economy. Digital platforms have outsourced curation to algorithms, to everyone's detriment.
We need good curators, and we need platforms that reward curatorial work. Only then can we build a creator economy that isn't just predatory. That doesn't just promote the top one percent of creators.
Curation is what makes digital platforms worth spending time on.
"...share a platform's overall value with all its contributors, big and small. [...] For vibrant creative scenes to function, the value must flow to everyone." Yes! I've dreamed of creative scenes with this sort of value flow all my life, yet extractive systems have made it ever-elusive. For the first time, I'm seeing reason for real hope, and you articulated this vision so beautifully. Thank you. May a thousand creative scenes bloom. 214129 $ENJOY
10x Thinking invites you to set powerful goals that you may not believe possible. The idea is for you to think differently about your problems. It induces a phase change to your thinking.
But what if you embraced /10 Thinking instead? What if instead of trying to go 10 times bigger or 10 times faster, you went 10 times smaller or 10 times slower?
/10 Thinking is a powerful idea that invites you to reconsider your goals, to examine how you create art, and to question what it means to "make it."
Excellent and provocative questions here. Even a cursory glance at them immediately brings up additional questions:
Why is it so rare to see these things discussed, while advice from the 10x productivity gurus is rehashed endlessly? What kind of barriers (psychological, social, cultural, economic) must we navigate with /10 thinking? How might we facilitate /10 thinking by, say, setting up our surroundings to ease the way?
Thank you. This piece is destined to become a classic of early Slowcore literature. 493410 $ENJOY
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Curator Economy, Not Creator Economy
The role of publishing must take on a new one: curation. Curation is the missing piece of the creator economy. Digital platforms have outsourced curation to algorithms, to everyone's detriment.
We need good curators, and we need platforms that reward curatorial work. Only then can we build a creator economy that isn't just predatory. That doesn't just promote the top one percent of creators.
Curation is what makes digital platforms worth spending time on.
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/10 Thinking
But what if you embraced /10 Thinking instead? What if instead of trying to go 10 times bigger or 10 times faster, you went 10 times smaller or 10 times slower?
/10 Thinking is a powerful idea that invites you to reconsider your goals, to examine how you create art, and to question what it means to "make it."
Read the full essay here:
paragraph.xyz/
A moment for the movement. 120000 $enjoyWhy is it so rare to see these things discussed, while advice from the 10x productivity gurus is rehashed endlessly? What kind of barriers (psychological, social, cultural, economic) must we navigate with /10 thinking? How might we facilitate /10 thinking by, say, setting up our surroundings to ease the way?
Thank you. This piece is destined to become a classic of early Slowcore literature. 493410 $ENJOY
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