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Internet Basics

Online Commodities

Consumer and Creator

1. Creator = Consumer

2. The Active Consumer

3. “Creator-GTM”

3.A. Where the Viral Things Are

4. The Anonymous Economy

5. Pre-founder: People-focused investing

Content is King -- Bill Gates, 1997

Things To Do.

Work to Be Done

Statements; No Mission

⬜ Creator Financing

Untraditional Talent

Villains/Heroes, Love/Technology

Creator Extras

A Spectrum of Influence

Influencing Influencers

Investment

Total Content Market (TCM)/Content TAM (C-TAM)

“Organic” = unpaid?

Rethinking Consumer LTV

Introducing: On-Page Collaboration, LiveWriting, anti-Press Publish

VC Managers: Finding your style

Women’s Consumer (2022)

Translation

“GenZ”

Personal Journal

An intro to Personal Journal

Alcohol and VC

How to be Jealous

Not On Your Side

“Pedigree”

“Levers”

“Cleanup”

“Examples”

My love letter to Journalists

Unfortunately

Why I dropped out

Advice for a Y1/Y2 woman in VC

Advice for a Y3 woman in VC

Women and Wikipedia

Manifesto

Dating in Your Industry

Invest in the Opposition

Forced Content.

Me & Paul

Very Specific Advice

Young People

Content vs. Journalism

To Be Free

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© EM 2024

This is completely anecdotal.

I believe that art and pain are on two far ends of the spectrum. In any moment in my life thatI’ve felt the need to find make anything of substance, it was a time I was forced, ignored, neglected or silenced.

I, personally, find it very difficult to conduct meaningful art at all in happy and free times. For this reason, I argue the rise and facade of content reframed as art. Art is high nose. Art is so snooty, if you hear anyone talk about it, you ignore it and hear it out of touch from any previous conversation no matter the context.

The only exception is proven trial. If you know, for a fact, this person has a backstory of lesser than ideal quality, the art can be accepted. For this reason, I would argue that “most art is better once the artist is dead” is the ultimate get-out-of-jail-free card for someone who lacked that connection with the audience from the start.

Vulnerability to an audience is hard and historically has taken a bunch of time.