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Yancey Strickler

@ystrickler

Cofounder @Metalabel_ @Kickstarter @TheCreativeIndp
Author “This Could Be Our Future" "The Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet"

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Love this Robin Hanson piece. This is why Yancey Strickler's 'dark forest theory' of the Internet is true. We should really reward risk, originality, unorthodoxy, and weirdness more. overcomingbias.com/2023/02/why-is…

Love this <a href="/robinhanson/">Robin Hanson</a> piece. This is why <a href="/ystrickler/">Yancey Strickler</a>'s 'dark forest theory' of the Internet is true. We should really reward risk, originality, unorthodoxy, and weirdness more. overcomingbias.com/2023/02/why-is…
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I grew up on a farm in the middle of nowhere. What I thought was a disadvantage turned out to be a secret weapon. When I moved to New York, I had no Yale MFA. No family connections. No prestigious background. Just a kid from rural Virginia with big dreams about being a music

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Survivorship bias aside, its true that many of the people who end up pushing culture forward are not from cultural centers who would only later embrace them. Partly due to seeing things obliquely as Yancey says, but I also think it takes a certain kind of obsession to persevere

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We assume creative people have to compete for the same crown. But there's an option B where we collaboratively construct new value.

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AI is going to commoditize most things. What will be distinct? Our voices, opinions, personalities. Who has that? Creative people. We're going to shine.

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Too often we rush past the early stages to get big. The moments we're most nostalgic for are when we didn't know if we'd make it. Kurt Cobain once said if he could do it all over again, he would've stayed in the van right before Nirvana got big. When they could feel it was

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The algorithm wants us to think bigger numbers always win. But could 1,500 of the right people be enough? Joshua Citarella and I started a podcast called "New Creative Era" earlier this year. The numbers (about 1,500 downloads per episode) were smaller than expected. But after

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A traditional magazine might pay you $1000 for a feature. Your own Substack might pay 10x that. The economics have flipped in favor of those who build their structures.

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Creative people today are conditioned to think solo success is the only path. The mythology runs deep: the tortured artist, the lone genius, the solo star. We celebrate the outliers who "make it," while ignoring the thousands who burn out trying to compete in a system designed

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The problem isn't that creative people lack entrepreneurial instincts. The problem is we lack entrepreneurial infrastructure.

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Let’s say a band starts an Artist Corporation. Here’s what would happen: First, they’d no longer be five (or three, or four, etc.) individuals. They become people who together own an organization. Together, they would collectively own their intellectual property, their gear,

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Today we own less and rent more. This is bad for artists, but great for platforms. Artists need new legal structures to properly value their work and empower them with agency beyond platforms, who will always seek to maximize their own profits and interests in the long run.