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The Conscious Contrarian challenges conventional wisdom to uncover new, more attuned principles and perspectives for navigating the future.

I can’t help but be a little bit in awe of nostr almost every single day…

Not sure if this is true, but from what I understand, they have the additional problem that raising prices doesn’t help them because they have to pass any surplus on to the labels anyway.

In other words, their only path to profitability is 1) hoping for better bargaining power in the next cycle of contract renewals and 2) reducing overhead

What do we need in order to build Spotify on nostr? Besides the licensing agreements for the music catalog? nostr:note1s7tytvmssjeglarz49saj9ppzu95pkpv5jl02hjme0ew5ptka7ysz9fmm9

Spotify just tanked on reporting another huge loss and increasing their prices. I wonder whether their business model is sustainable at all especially when they are competing with the tech giants who are bundling music into other services?

What is Arcade nostr:npub1z4m7gkva6yxgvdyclc7zp0vz4ta0s2d9jh8g83w03tp5vdf3kzdsxana6p ? nostr:note1h3rcarn3mt37fku248k58x0t3kq3ggul469dhhkzel24v0dhw74s5nctjm

💥Primal is awesome! Still running into a bunch of bugs on both iOS and Desktop, will start submitting more screenshots.

…or like acquiring property in America’s 19th century west.

Pioneers and trail blazers will be rewarded royally. nostr:note1l54vpvxyd2mu6el608jegx3kmmktrjr3avy3swzm67epg2ucchwswwhfly

As feed’s like #primal’s “Trending 24h” become more common with nostr clients, I wonder whether it’s going to change user behavior. Are people going to focus more on manufacturing virality?

The Art of Mastery - by my incredible contemplation teacher Peter Ralston

I don’t think requiring payments fully fixes the bot problems. With more sophisticated AI there will be increasingly bots that are able to profitably able to spam these platforms even if they have to pay for it.

Anyway, I’m not trying to protect Elon and I’m all in on nostr, I just think that if our hypothesis is right, we will not have to fight them with their own populist and attention seeking weapons, in fact it will be counterproductive.

This is where we’re going to learn how sticky these streaming services actually are.