👉 What Happened on Tech Twitter Last Week - Nov 10

Do you have the best job ever, young Bezos and Gates, songwriting for Tik Tok, Disney+, and more!

Nov 19, 2019

Yo it’s Brett! Here’s all the exciting news from Tech Twitter last week.

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Also, next week, Zack Kukoff is curating the newsletter! Here’s a funny tweet of his from this week. Get excited.

Zak Kukoff @zck

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It wasn’t luck

Alec is spot on with his comment on this video. Watch it.

Alec Stapp @AlecStapp

So much of life is pure luck, being in the right place at the right time. This is not that.

While we’re at it, here’s another classic video. Wait for Letterman to Gates’ point about streaming baseball online with a sassy, “umm… have you heard of radio??”

Scott Galloway @profgalloway

Bill Gates explaining "The Internet" to Letterman, 1995

Disney Goes Live

On the topic, Disney released its streaming service last week and lots of people are enjoying this price comparison with cable TV. Honestly though, if you’re not using the credentials of your buddy’s friend’s ex that she actually only went on one Hinge date with before he gave her his username/password, you’re the fool.

Sar Haribhakti @sarthakgh

Hulu - $13 Netflix - $12 HBO Max - $15 Disney+ - $7 Fortnite - $200 SuperHuman - $30 YouTube TV - $50 Spotify - $10 Total: $337 per month for streaming and entertainment services Explain how this was supposed to save us money over cable?

Podcasting is lit

Podcasting has seen almost a billion dollars in M&A in the last two years.

Josh Kaplan @JKaplan1

Major podcast acquisitions in 2019: Spotify: Gimlet, ~$230m Anchor, ~$120m Parcast, ~$56m Entercom: Cadence13, $34m Pineapple Media, $14m That's already $454m, a bit less than 2018's total podcast rev ($478m). 2020 should be interesting. (most data from @Podnews)

nina oyama @ninaoyama

holy shit I’m in a hipster cafe and just heard a dude say he’s releasing his first podcast straight to vinyl, pack up humanity it’s done.

If you trigger them, they will come

This is a pretty incredible chart showing NYT becoming increasing left-leaning through the rise of certain phrases in the paper over the years.

Paul Graham @paulg

Hypothesis: Although some newspapers can survive the switch to online subscriptions, none can do it and remain a politically neutral "newspaper of record." You have to pick a side to get people to subscribe.

Turns out, producing increasingly inflammatory content rubs people the wrong way.

vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin

I've been noticing from multiple places a rapid surge in open contempt for US mainstream media. People have of course been saying various things about them since forever, but in the past ~2 months it feels like an equilibrium has been broken.

Anton Vuljaj @anton

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Anton Vuljaj @anton

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Knowing you have the best job

Also see ikigai and Zone of Genius.

Nikhil Krishnan @nikillinit

Having: 1) a job/career you enjoy 2) that also aligns with something you’re good 3) that’s also is lucrative enough to support a comfortable lifestyle Is such a massive stroke of luck and causes so much less friction in every other aspect of life

The medium is the message

Musicians are adapting songs to work better on Tik Tok. This seems mind-blowing (and maybe depressing if you’re a music purist) at first glance, but this is how it has worked for as long as music has been a thing. As an example, most songs’ choruses hit within the first 30-40 seconds because that’s the minimum requirement for streaming services to count a listen.