Mark Zuckerberg suggested that social media is a “Fifth Estate”; in fact, social media is a means by which the Third Estate — commoners — can seize political power. Here history matters…| Stratechery by Ben Thompson
Harvey Weinstein was a gate-keeper — a position that existed in multiple industries, including the media. That entire structure, though, is untenable on the Internet, and that’s a good thing.…| Stratechery by Ben Thompson
TSMC showed the power of modularization, and now they are core to the U.S. national security strategy.| Stratechery by Ben Thompson
A single AI can never make everyone happy, which is fundamentally threatening to the Aggregator business model; the solution is personalized AI| Stratechery by Ben Thompson