🚨 Emergency Elon Edition 🚨

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In case you haven't heard, the world's richest man got what he wants. If you're looking for some way to make sense of this, here's what I've been rabidly consuming at the expense of things that will actually make me happy.

✍🏻 Fred Wilson on the future of Twitter. In this very short blogpost, a successful venture capitalist lays out the basic idea of what some very smart people are saying the future of Twitter should be. Like websites and email, they think Twitter should be another piece of internet infrastructure that anybody can play with and present any way they like. For example, I could launch an app with my own algorithm that shows your Twitter feed in chronological order and most of them are from Shaq (LIKE IT USED TO BE!). Fred Wilson is particularly interesting to read, because he made a ton of money investing in Web-2.0 companies like Twitter, and is now having even more success investing in Web-3.0 companies like Coinbase. He understands these companies on a financial and product level.

🎙️ Burnt out tech reporters shit on Twitter. The Dead Cat podcast is like listening to a bunch of people who actually work at Facebook complain about their managers over drinks after work. They cut through a lot of the BS narratives the tech companies preach about their "missions" and "values," and provide real insight into what the execs and the employees running the show actually care about. This is their take on why Elon isn't a hero, and why he's about to find out how difficult it is to run Twitter. (This was recorded before the sale went through, but I think it holds up regardless).

✍🏻 What even is Twitter? Ben Thompson has a brilliant newsletter with an awful name: Stratechery. Half strategy, half tech. He's a relatively young guy living in Taiwan who has a knack for simplifying complex systems into easily digestible principals that you can apply elsewhere. I have a feeling that his Aggregation Theory will be studied by MBA's for many decades to come. In this long post, he breaks down what makes Twitter Twitter, and why Fred Wilson's idea (see above) to open it up to developers actually makes sense from a business and product perspective. He's hard to argue with, and if you take the time to understand his stuff you always walk away with a new framework for thinking.

🙏🏻 If you like these, check out the Context Is Everywhere website. I'll add more of these as I come across them throughout the week.

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