On Tasteland this week, @mikerugnetta.com joined us to talk about late-stage platformism, the rise of the agentic web, that the attention economy is a zero-sum game, how Hentai explains platforms, and heading to the library to avoid AI slop.

Full episode on all pod platforms! pod.link/1760333416/

People ARE paying independent, creator-model journalists for their work.

@lizkellynelson.com is one of a network of leaders helping journalists make the jump from traditional newsrooms to starting up their own publications through her essential newsletter, Project C.

An essential episode today.

Today on Tasteland, @colenowicki.com joins @princessdaisy.bsky.social and I to talk about the state of the skate industry, Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico (and the pitfalls of happinessmaxxing), the smell of skateboarding, and religion being big in skateboarding.
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Interviewed Lindsey Stanberry, current creator of women's personal finance newsletter The Purse and founding editor of Refinery29's Money Diaries, for last week's Creator Spotlight.

Here she is on the traditional wall between editorial and advertising departments:

Also got into his YouTube production process (he routinely gets 100s of thousands of views).

I always ask interviewees how they define “creator.” Nobody has ever given me such an explicitly entrepreneurial definition.

For last week's edition of Creator Spotlight, I wrote about John Hu, founder of Stan, a creator monetization tool, and a highly capable video creator in his own right (see: @jayhoovy on YouTube, with 129k subscribers).