The Option Value of Satisfying Work
Doing what you love in public has an option value. One road to the good life is to be able to find satisfaction in utter obscurity, while setting up the possibility for fame to find you.
Tagged: power law distributions
Filter Bubbles Versus Viral Memes: Why We Have More Common Ground than Ever Before
The Internet doesn’t dissolve common culture. Rather, it enables the proliferation of viral content that penetrates our attempts to isolate ourselves. As a result, we have more common culture than ever before.
There’s No Long Tail without a Big Head
Mass-market capitalism doesn’t produce bland mass culture—it’s what makes the long tail possible.
