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Status as a Service [Eugene Wei]

The Swyx Mixtape

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Why Do You Believe Amstainment Has Now Become Zero Sum?

i'm old enough to remember when all of the different forms of media in my life were spatially separated from each other. Now every time i unlock my phone, i have every one of those things that i just talked about on my phone at my disposal. What that has done essentially is it puts all these industries into competition with each other in the attention economy. If you love video games far more than you love movies or television, you can play video games all day. If you like music more than you like video games, you can listen to infinite libraries of music forever and never finish. You don't have that going for you if you're making movies. But tough luck, because actually

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