Or here's an idea, to involve one of the greatest comedy writers ever, Bill Persky, head writer of the Dick van Dyke Show and creator of Marlo Thomas's groundbreaking That Girl. He's languishing in too-old land and is a rabid progressive who would love to rise to the challenge! I guess not cool to give his email, so reply to me.
Mark's point about the shift from mass media to decentralized content creation is spot on. We're living through this transition right now. It's so refreshing and exhilarating to be part of this revolution.
As a Gen X trader myself, I feel that kinship with the Zoomers he's talking about. We're both pushing against the established norms, trying to carve out our own space. It's no wonder he's drawn to voices like Honor Levy.
The part about becoming more open-minded as you age really struck a chord with me. In the finance world, it's easy to get set in your ways, to think you've seen it all. But that's a dangerous mindset. I've always tried to stay curious, to keep learning from younger traders and analysts. Mark's idea of "young mentors" is brilliant - I might have to implement that!
I hereby retract all skin-based compliments on the knowledge you are two years younger than I am.
This was a great listen. Happy I took a comp day. This was fighting against bespoke phonics alphabet videos my son watches
on YouTube, which is how the niche creator economy is playing out at my house.
I am really curious as to what mechanisms you all can dream up to increase discoverability and bring all writers into the fold. I’ve not looked into it too hard but one of the specifics things I’ve always wondered about is: can you legally create a service that either 1) takes money from people on behalf of someone not yet opted into that system and then tell them “hey, these people want to give you money!” And then just refund it back if the person doesn’t enroll within some period or 2) I’m sure this would be legal, but just taking pledges. In both cases you could just have your business social media accounts do some sort of auto message to theirs on whatever platform. So you end up building a tech stack above and across platforms instead of within a specific platform.
I didn't bother listening since I was an intertemporal Co-Producer of this episode. Marc is right to draw the analogy to the early Web. It's why I wrote an article almost 5 months back now demonstrating how a design mistake when implementing Javascript on browsers shot us in the foot, and when you fix it, you get an AGI architecture instead.
It's my Fear and Loathing in DOM Vegas masterpiece.
Setting a company's own narrative is what interests me too.
In a world careening in to various forms of crisis, it won't be enough for a media company to just provide information about the world. That's the 20th century.
A successful narrative for that media company in the 21st century will have to involve providing documented evidence of that company making the world a better place in a tangible, concrete and measurable manner. Emerging generations who have their entire lives ahead of them will want more from a media company than just discussion of the various forms of crisis.
Most of the most successful companies in the world already understand this and are using that understanding to enhance their company's narrative in various forms of public service. Here's a brief summary of the public service projects of about 90 of the world's best know brands.
I abandoned my first Substack about nuclear weapons when I realized that I couldn't really accomplish anything meaningful by just discussing a threat. Not being able to effect meaningful change began to feel like an empty exercise. And so now I've switched my focus to a smaller issue, but one I can actually do something about.
A successful narrative for a media company will increasingly require tangible, concrete and measurable action which makes the world a better place.
Yes, the tools exist to set one's narrative. But is there an adequate vision of what that narrative should be? Without an adequate vision, the tools don't help much.
"Comedy needs a Renaissance very badly."
Did you ever think about asking The Muse of Comedy Marc?
Or here's an idea, to involve one of the greatest comedy writers ever, Bill Persky, head writer of the Dick van Dyke Show and creator of Marlo Thomas's groundbreaking That Girl. He's languishing in too-old land and is a rabid progressive who would love to rise to the challenge! I guess not cool to give his email, so reply to me.
Mills getting a job from a retweet by him is epic!
Mark's point about the shift from mass media to decentralized content creation is spot on. We're living through this transition right now. It's so refreshing and exhilarating to be part of this revolution.
As a Gen X trader myself, I feel that kinship with the Zoomers he's talking about. We're both pushing against the established norms, trying to carve out our own space. It's no wonder he's drawn to voices like Honor Levy.
The part about becoming more open-minded as you age really struck a chord with me. In the finance world, it's easy to get set in your ways, to think you've seen it all. But that's a dangerous mindset. I've always tried to stay curious, to keep learning from younger traders and analysts. Mark's idea of "young mentors" is brilliant - I might have to implement that!
Great interview!!
Fantastic interview. Thanks for recording this. Indeed, there's no scarcity of information, but readers crave a feeling of community.
I hereby retract all skin-based compliments on the knowledge you are two years younger than I am.
This was a great listen. Happy I took a comp day. This was fighting against bespoke phonics alphabet videos my son watches
on YouTube, which is how the niche creator economy is playing out at my house.
I am really curious as to what mechanisms you all can dream up to increase discoverability and bring all writers into the fold. I’ve not looked into it too hard but one of the specifics things I’ve always wondered about is: can you legally create a service that either 1) takes money from people on behalf of someone not yet opted into that system and then tell them “hey, these people want to give you money!” And then just refund it back if the person doesn’t enroll within some period or 2) I’m sure this would be legal, but just taking pledges. In both cases you could just have your business social media accounts do some sort of auto message to theirs on whatever platform. So you end up building a tech stack above and across platforms instead of within a specific platform.
I didn't bother listening since I was an intertemporal Co-Producer of this episode. Marc is right to draw the analogy to the early Web. It's why I wrote an article almost 5 months back now demonstrating how a design mistake when implementing Javascript on browsers shot us in the foot, and when you fix it, you get an AGI architecture instead.
It's my Fear and Loathing in DOM Vegas masterpiece.
https://medium.com/@imkleats/fear-and-loathing-in-dom-vegas-abea2a21774e
Video playback is choppy on iOS 18 + Substack app. Perhaps we need a browser engineer to debug.
Setting a company's own narrative is what interests me too.
In a world careening in to various forms of crisis, it won't be enough for a media company to just provide information about the world. That's the 20th century.
A successful narrative for that media company in the 21st century will have to involve providing documented evidence of that company making the world a better place in a tangible, concrete and measurable manner. Emerging generations who have their entire lives ahead of them will want more from a media company than just discussion of the various forms of crisis.
Most of the most successful companies in the world already understand this and are using that understanding to enhance their company's narrative in various forms of public service. Here's a brief summary of the public service projects of about 90 of the world's best know brands.
https://writers-as-heroes.org/p/the-charitable-works-of-well-known
I abandoned my first Substack about nuclear weapons when I realized that I couldn't really accomplish anything meaningful by just discussing a threat. Not being able to effect meaningful change began to feel like an empty exercise. And so now I've switched my focus to a smaller issue, but one I can actually do something about.
A successful narrative for a media company will increasingly require tangible, concrete and measurable action which makes the world a better place.
Yes, the tools exist to set one's narrative. But is there an adequate vision of what that narrative should be? Without an adequate vision, the tools don't help much.
By the far the most interesting in new to me, was this truth terminal story