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Marketplace's analysis of Netflix's recent agreement with Spotify focuses on the two companies' competitive landscape. But I think the main benefit for Netflix will be a newfound ability to stream commentary on current events without needing to change their own content creation model. Netflix's multi-million-dollar contracts rope celebrities into making multi-year, multi-creation, rewatchable content. These… Continue reading what streams after eternal on-demand?

My phone is too small.  So is my iPad.  They’re a 12 mini and a mini 6, respectively, and they’re real and they’re spectacular. And they’re becoming too small for the internet.  I was the product owner begging our UX designers to create sufficiently narrow versions of our mobile pages that they’d load correctly on the… Continue reading hold you closer, tiny devices

What has poor Gen Z done wrong this time? They're bad at going out, apparently. I can see how covid lockdowns didn't do them any favors, but mostly I think it’s because they lack work experience.  Stay with me; I promise this isn't another "kids these days" rant. Think of your classic teenage first jobs.… Continue reading why gen z doesn’t know how to go to bars

The government slowed down inflation, hooray!.... except that "regular people" still think the economy is in bad shape. Pay for U.S. workers has remained stagnant (ie, effectively declined) for the last decade+. Our economy is so dependent on consumer purchasing that prices for consumer goods also had to remain artificially suppressed (ie, effectively decline) over… Continue reading it’s the wages, stupid

I’ve never forgotten the advice that a good budget should be like a good butler: sometimes it asks “are you quite sure?” and other times it says “very good, I’ll see to that right away.” Every workday our brains can give us 4 hours of intensely productive time, maybe 6 hours on a really good… Continue reading your calendar should be your butler