Ten Ideas

10 Ideas about Big Budget Moviemaking, Zero Cost Content, and Shovels

Remember how innovative The Matrix felt? When really it was just a lot of existing cameras, cut together?

Ten Ideas about Artificial Scarcity, Real Consumers, and Cold Hard Cash

1. Facebook deals in artificial scarcity. You already have 200k likes on your page, but to reach them all you have to pay to “boost.”
2. Facebook also deals in obscurity. Want to reach…

Ten Ideas about Content, Advertising, and Information Diets

1. Facebook Workplace will evolve into paid, ad free Facebook. If your friends want all the aspects of Facebook with more privacy, Facebook has already built that for you.
2. SnapChat will have a massive IPO…

Ten Ideas about the future of the internet and the internet of the future and also idiots

1. Choose Our Own Adventure — a story whose every chapter ends in crowd-funded choice forward.
2. Our Novel— An Exquisite Corpse experiment, with a…

10 Ideas I’m not selling you

1. I’m not pushing a book, or a podcast, or a webseries.
2. I don’t have a lifestyle to sell you, or a get rich quick scheme, or a growth opportunity that is shaped like a pyramid.
3. I’m not starting a cult of ten ideas. You don’t have…

10 Ideas about WAIT NO MAN’S SKY IS CRAZY DOPE