A newsletter about Pop Culture, Software Studies, Business Strategy, Media Platforms, Algorithmic Management, Game Design, and everything in between.
FEATURED
How AI Tokens Challenge Broadband Economics
The parallel evolution of two foundational commodities in a new economic layer.
-
Polymarket, the platform founded by the young New York entrepreneur, has just been valued at $8 billion https://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/2025-11-01/shayne-coplan-generation-zs-first-major-billionaire.html more ›
-
The world feels unsettled, as if history itself were changing tempo. The familiar landmarks of the modern age are blurring, slipping away, and the stories we once told ourselves about progress and power no longer map cleanly onto the terrain… more ›
-
Loss has become a pervasive condition of life in Europe and America. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/opinion/west-europe-america-lost.html?unlocked_article_code=1.rU8.fmj5.leL4plCy7p0w&smid=url-share more ›
-
“The older I get the more I realize how many kinds of smart there are. https://collabfund.com/blog/different-kinds-of-smart/?utm_source=smartrdaily&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=different-kinds-of-smart&_bhlid=3193394c2fb6a5382fd0f47de3c25af2d5aace56 more ›
-
Thirty-eight million farmers across India received forecasts this summer accurately predicting the start of the rainy season. This forecast, powered by artificial intelligence (AI), was tailored to farmers’ needs, providing them with advance prediction of the rainy season earlier than… more ›
-
Listen: https://ift.tt/kxiMFNX The museum displays, for the first time, the entire contents of Tutankhamun's tomb, along with some 100,000 artefacts covering seven millennia of the country's history. We hear from the renowned Egyptologist Dr Zahi Hawass, a former Egyptian minister… more ›
-
As One Battle After Another releases to a stratospheric response, Brian Formo speaks with director Paul Thomas Anderson and star Leonardo DiCaprio about the improvisational moments, lengthy gestation period and eureka discoveries that brought it to life. https://letterboxd.com/journal/paul-thomas-anderson-leonardo-dicaprio-interview/ more ›
-
We rank the most essential and influential albums of this quintessentially American art form. https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/best-rap-albums-all-time/ more ›
-
Listen: https://ift.tt/vigs6fu Last week, an FBI investigation into gambling led to the arrest of several prominent basketball stars, raising questions about the state of legalized sports betting, which has enriched professional sports and sports media. The problems with sports gambling… more ›
-
Listen: https://ift.tt/1eK6EUT Welcome to this classic episode. Classics are my favorite episodes from the past 10 years, published once a month. These are N of 1 conversations with N of 1 people. Kevin Kelly co-founded Wired magazine and has published… more ›