Shirky: Fame vs Fortune: Micropayments and Free Content This strategy doesn’t work, because the act of buying anything, even if the price is very small, creates what Nick Szabo calls mental transaction costs, the energy required to decide whether something is worth buying or not, regardless of price.

The Collapse of Complex Business Models « Clay Shirky When the value of complexity turns negative, a society plagued by an inability to react remains as complex as ever, right up to the moment where it becomes suddenly and dramatically simpler, which is to say right up to the moment of collapse. Collapse is simply […]

How Do We Identifiy Good Ideas? Take time off to properly value your own ideas.

dillardsarah why are so many consumer web apps better than their sites? Eg @twitter, @kayak, @amtrak. Forced simplicity?

Why Sea Turtles cross the Atlantic to lay eggs

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paulg Request for Startups: Kill Hollywood. http://t.co/wdchmDLy

Where the Wild Things Are (as read by Christopher Walken) Randumbify

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Simulations and the Fermi paradox Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution