History for martinb

Virtual industries need a lot of energy. 

Geez. Imagine if we could do semiconductors. Or is it chips I’m thinking of? The thing Taiwan does amazingly well and every other country is trying to copy and can’t? Which is bonkers when you think about it. 

I’m going to be mean and say it’s like when all the newspapers went tabloid and listicley to get clicks. 5-10 years of being dicks because controversy and clicks were all that mattered to this new tech world. Stuff, looking at past you. 

Turns out clicks are worthless. Turns out 40,000 clicks on something people don’t really care about is worth a lot less to advertisers than a thousand subscribers who are interested and invested in what you have to say. A bit like the old subscriber based newspaper model. 

Unlike the 50s and 60s it’s unclear that tech is going to help us much in the short or long term. Or if we’re even going to be able to sustain our current level of comfort with fertiliser shortages also predicted…

Do think substack was founded here? But it’s due to be disbanded either by Presidential decree or a tweet from the New Zealand Minister for Waste on the basis that it supports journalism and journalists. 

Eh don’t mind me, I’m just seeing NZ going down a US culture war path and it’s sharkting me. I’d like to think any NZ university discovery could end up as an industry benefiting large  chunks of society, but I can equally imagine it heading overseas. 

The former fairgo fundamentals are heading the same way as the TV programme. Destroy the checks and balances or just ignore them. 4 more years of that and perhaps a lifetime of the Supreme Court in the US. A pesky treaty preventing you buying land, water or other taonga? Better get that too…

Luxon is the PM for us the way Facebook is a service. Facebook exists to sell us and our data to companies. Luxon has inherited a list and is eliminating or being helped to eliminate barriers to a buy up. Most of us are just in the way, unless in the case of the health system and retirement industry we’re the investment being sold to be juiced.

Virtual industries need a lot of energy. 

Geez. Imagine if we could do semiconductors. Or is it chips I’m thinking of? The thing Taiwan does amazingly well and every other country is trying to copy and can’t? Which is bonkers when you think about it. 

I’m going to be mean and say it’s like when all the newspapers went tabloid and listicley to get clicks. 5-10 years of being dicks because controversy and clicks were all that mattered to this new tech world. Stuff, looking at past you. 

Turns out clicks are worthless. Turns out 40,000 clicks on something people don’t really care about is worth a lot less to advertisers than a thousand subscribers who are interested and invested in what you have to say. A bit like the old subscriber based newspaper model. 

Unlike the 50s and 60s it’s unclear that tech is going to help us much in the short or long term. Or if we’re even going to be able to sustain our current level of comfort with fertiliser shortages also predicted…

Do think substack was founded here? But it’s due to be disbanded either by Presidential decree or a tweet from the New Zealand Minister for Waste on the basis that it supports journalism and journalists. 

Virtual industries need a lot of energy. 

Geez. Imagine if we could do semiconductors. Or is it chips I’m thinking of? The thing Taiwan does amazingly well and every other country is trying to copy and can’t? Which is bonkers when you think about it. 

I’m going to be mean and say it’s like when all the newspapers went tabloid and listicley to get clicks. 5-10 years of being dicks because controversy and clicks were all that mattered to this new tech world. Stuff, looking at past you. 

Turns out clicks are worthless. Turns out 40,000 clicks on something people don’t really care about is worth a lot less to advertisers than a thousand subscribers who are interested and invested in what you have to say. A bit like the old subscriber based newspaper model. 

Unlike the 50s and 60s it’s unclear that tech is going to help us much in the short or long term. Or if we’re even going to be able to sustain our current level of comfort with fertiliser shortages also predicted…