📸 What Victoria Market was before it was Victoria Market - where that 🖇️ Indian Restaurant is.
🖇️ When I wrote this earlier today - i hadn’t received my daily Readwise … that somehow seems to connect ….
I’ve been hypothesizing that the next iteration of great SaaS platforms could evolve toward context-as-a-service (CaaS)
Whilst I find that we seem to be on a similar journey with thought … on this we differ
Meanwhile - one of my ‘graphics under development’ .. this one talking about ‘forgetting’ the 4Ps and start thinking 4Es - that I most recently talked about 🖇️ here.
Bottom line - we keep talking about change - radical change - and yet for some reason - our thinking is not radical - witness that we keep building ‘systems of experience’ on ‘systems of record’ infrastructure.
… and we wonder why it’s not working?
🔗 Nicholas Carr: What is it … | Alan Jacobs
What fills the pattern at any given instant –what we call content– is fungible and disposable. It’s not important. It’s the pattern, the form the content fits and replicates, that’s important.
“fungible and disposable” - 🖇️ been writing about this for years - eventually the term will disappear - once all the juice has been extracted.
You might have noticed that ‘the daily surprise’ has just been updated to the ‘when I remember it - and have time surprise’.
Today’s Surprise From History - 🖇️ The Services Industry is prostitution minus …
🔗 Goldman Sachs Boosts Apple Inc. with Positive App Store Trends
NB: No meaningful (or perhaps even measurable) impact from off-Appstore payments alternatives. Turns out adding friction to a frictionless business is not an attractive option for the customer.
💬 Horace Dediu
‘Ease’ replaces ‘Price’ in my 🖇️ 4 E Model for the Age of Engagement.
Adam Tinworth … 🔗 Journalism isn’t dying
Less than a week after massive layoffs at the Washington Post which have sent shockwaves through the media world, this seems like a strange thing to say, but journalism is not dying. In fact, it’s in no danger of dying. It’s being reborn all around us, right now.
Me back in 2018 : 🖇️ Musicians Only Made 12% of the Music Industry’s Revenue
I think it’s a related argument - add in the argument about ‘saving the planet - we are killing it’. Yes we are - but that os not the problem.
In all three cases we are looking at the wrong thing.
It was the music industry that was dying - not music - as that headline in 2018 highlights and as we see today. Not saying it isn’t hard. It is - but it is very much around.
As for Climate Change - sure - it might wipe out humanity - but the planet will be just fine. Its a bugger what we are doing to it - but in all honesty if we werent around - the planet would recover.
So too journalism.
Today’s Surprise From History - 🖇️ The Dems and Thugs agreed on something. Once.