| Sturgeon’s Law abounds. I’ve always found that most books within or similar to Ferris’ genre hold a nice message but are 90 fluff. He picks on summarization as the sort circuit and claims the lived experience imbued within his books is the real draw. Not disagreeing here. LLMs unpack the intentional content stretching rigmarole authors go through as a function of publishers requirements to produce something that is minimally viable to publish. Some seemingly important questions that come to my mind in a future where LLMs, ad-based revenue, and attention-as-currency prevail: how do you create a knowledge-based product valuable/compelling enough to make people want to pay for it? And what is the best value-prop way to monetize it? (For BOTH producer and consumer) Is length a necessary requirement for substantiveness? If so, where on the spectrum of long-content_vs_short-content should it live? Unfortunately, I im not confident the internet can fundamentally diverge from an ad-based or subscription monetization model in its current form. IMO, Michael I Jordan has a lot of refreshing ideas on how to build better marketplaces that sustainably benefit producers and consumers (as opposed to mostly just platform-maintaining-rent-seekers). |