What comes after smartphones? by Benedict Evans. “We’ve spent the last few decades getting to the point that we can now give everyone on earth a cheap, reliable, easy-to-use pocket computer with access to a global information network. But so far, though over 4bn people have one of these things, we’ve only just scratched the surface of what we can do with them…now the innovation comes from everything else that happens around them.”
Build a Personal Monopoly: by David Perell. “The ultimate goal of writing online is to build a Personal Monopoly. It’s your unique intersection of skills, interests, and personality traits where you can be known as the best thinker on a topic and open yourself up to the serendipity that makes writing online so special.”
The victory of the peripheral? by Santosh Desai. “The government’s iron grip on the media and its ability to push through any narrative no matter how far-fetched has given it is a sense of invincibility that becomes a source of frustration when it has to deal with international criticism...The net result is that the peripheral issues are what is taking up our time and attention.”
