Thank you for jumping on this last-minute Zoom meeting. As you’re all well aware, this has been a great year for us. Profits are at an all-time high. Our stock price is at an all-time high. Growth projections for the coming year are through the roof. You all have done an amazing job ushering in a new era of success for this company. So amazing, in fact, that we have no choice but to let you all go.
It’s the end of the web as we know it. The end of wading through unhelpful results to get reliable information?! OMG what ever will the advertisers do?? Publishers and content owners will license their content, the AI Answer Companies will pass along the costs to consumers just as they’re used to accessing everything for free, subsidized by venture capital and it will just become another monthly subscription. What am I missing?
Excited to have acquired a first printing of The Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet, written by some of my favorite writers about all things Internet.
It feels like American society is getting ever more polarized. Conspiracies, especially among right-wing extremists, can be a force multiplier for radicalization. The problem is that once people believe in a conspiracy, they aren’t likely to change their mind.
Matt Haughey moved his site from WordPress to Ghost. I started doing the same a few months back, but chickened out when it became clear that importing 20+ years of posts was going to take some technical skills that I didn’t have, but I would definitely like to do it.
Rest In Power 😔
I love Seth’s notion of niching up. It connects nicely to another great (and much longer) read about extreme brainstorming.
Looking forward to a cup of spite at Latte Larry’s this weekend.
Matt made a clock called Poem/1 and it’s really lovely. He’s funding it over on the ole Kickstarter. I recommend you at least look at the work, even if you don’t plan to fund it.
I’ve been a long-time IFTTT user and have been on their “forever” grandfathered Legacy Pro Plan, but wouldn’t you know… forever isn’t actually forever after all. I plan to cancel my subscription and hope many others do as well. While I don’t have anything mission-critical using IFTTT, it’s definitely annoying to have to look for alternatives.