## 13:31 ancient articles

that have been lurking in my email for far too long

### creator economy?

<https://li.substack.com/p/the-creator-economy-is-in-crisis>

- unclear how successful gig econymy has been overall: postulated to
  have erodded 100 years worth of worker protections
- passion economy: minting via personal passions and direct user
  relationships! leverage 'tools' of the creator economy to inject more
  emotion into their work? 1,000 true fans really is true!
- capital: evolution to ownership of data that enables productivity -
  knowing human behavior allows for better catering to it, so data
  ownership is in aggregate more valuable than any one time transaction
  is - allows optimizing for the transactino model that will best nsure
  success. several large firms have aggregated control of user data,
  which is probablu bad
- oversaturation of creators: only the platforh wins in the long term,
  really, as vast majority of creators are lust contributing to platform
  usage and network effects.
- creator incomes are just as volatile as gig workers - unclear whether
  it's a safe path forward.
- platforms as intermediaries for creators directly own, control and
  regulate means of income for creators; this is probably not healthy,
  as the network optimizes for the best vales for the network rather
  than for the rights and liberties of any individual. in short -
  centralization and consolidation of platforms is bad!

improving things:

- distributed channels for audiences that communicate directly to
  consumer: email, rss feeds, direct monetization for end users.
- vital to be able to control the platforms you publish on! anything
  less is just beholden to another company, organization or platform.
- improved product design: provide transparency to creators regarding
  their successes and failures, demonstrating to them precicely how and
  why they see the numbers that they do.
- can build wellness tools into the platform! like time tracking and
  budgeting tools or mental health resources.

### linus on the future of the browser?

<https://thesephist.com/posts/browser/>

- thesis: we need a medium for thought rather than just a tool!. with
  some ideas attached
- building a medium requires protocols, standards, platforms - we're
  stuck on cli when we need gui! personally i think any new protocol or
  tech must be bootstrapped with existing utilities first, and available
  in the browser, before transitioning to anything more sustainable and
  independent.
- a web browser should be optimized for browsing semantic information -
  not just tools and apps - and the ability to organize this information
  should be first class

no new or interesting insights here. i wonder if i should start writing;
these concepts are not new to me and i've already traed these thougnt
processes, though on the tool development end i am nowhere near as
prolific. maybe i've done too much research and not enough hard work.

### tabs newsletter

<https://elisebang.substack.com/people/10992231-elise-bang-twenty-three-tabs>

<https://alyssax.com/>: who is this?? how is she so prolific?? i have to
get there!

### the shangri la diet

just eat food that makes you desire to eat less of it; enter the olive
oil diet <http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/miraclediet>

### note revelation

keeping wiki structure intact doesn't work for me; it's nice to stamp
long form articles in at some point, but i typically prefer free flowing
ideas over trying to squeeze everything into a box on the wiki. i
ultimately do not want to perform the maintenance work required to keep
that up - i just want to spew text into a file and have the computer
automate the rest. or is that so hard? is that truly what i want?

### some ideas, borrowed from someone else

<https://www.ianbicking.org/blog/2020/09/project-ideas-2020.html>

- organized and extensible generic document storage and protocol? make
  it federated? basically copy google drive, federate it and open source
  it, then keep going with things taht would never be considered a
  google business priority. this drifted into my idea instead, but the
  poiet stands that there is potential for one!
- automated cms to remove things you don't like from socials and only
  allow interactions with the parts you do like!