The Daily

James Talarico: 'We Have a Corruption Crisis' | The Daily

Conspiracy theorists can post anything they want online. Uh politicians can say anything they want online. Um the poster gets clicks. We all get angry on both sides and no one's life gets any better. And so it's it's it's uh it's tragic because I think so many of us um go to these platforms because we are searching for connection and instead we fall into this broken business model that leaves us lonelier.

The Daily

Why James Talarico Thinks He Can Win Over Republicans in Texas

I think so many of us um go to these platforms because we are searching for connection and instead we fall into this broken business model that leaves us lonelier. Uh it leaves us more disconnected than when we hopped on the platform in the first place.

The a16z Show

When AI Agents Start Spending Your Money | Alex Rampell & Terry Angelos

AI could simultaneously increase consumer spending while eliminating the subscriptions, fees, and other forms of economic "breakage" that depend on people not paying attention.

It's Been a Minute

Nowadays, celebrity is a state of mind | It's Been a Minute

If anybody can be like famous generally lowercase F, what is the value anymore of being like capital F? And sometimes these lowercase F famous people can be richer than the capital F famous people.

The a16z Show

What Makes a Consumer AI Product Stick? | Josh Elman

Josh argues that getting attention has actually become easier, but getting consumers to stick is harder than ever.

TBPN

Paramount Bounces, Snap Specs, AI Affirmations, Chase Lochmiller Joins, Joe Weisenthal IRL

We know you're addicted to your phone, so here's another product that will actually always be attached to your face where they were going to spin as helping you kind of reconnect with reality.

Diet TBPN

Apple’s iPhone Duo, Meta’s Muse AI Agent, Anthropic Researcher Quits Over AI Doom | Diet TBPN

You spend more time on your phone than you do in your car. And your car is 10 times the price of your phone always like if not more.

It's Been a Minute

The influencer era is dead. What's next?

Attention is just like a supply and demand business. At some point, there is going to be too much supply. And so, what we're seeing is a lot of these lifestyle influencers that, you know, 5, 10 years ago would have, you know, you know, with enough consistency, if they post something that looks aspirational and cool enough, people will find their audience. But now that kind of everyone has to be everything to everyone and everyone has to be reaching new For You pages all the time on every single platform, what worked 5 years ago is not working anymore.

TED Radio Hour

The price of creativity

More people than ever creating. More demand for content than ever, yet less support systems than ever. And there's this very acute pressure that every artist and creative person feels right now of like, I feel like I'm falling behind.

Semafor Media

Is Tucker Carlson Running for President? | Semafor Media

Tucker is a savvy media player. He understands how the attention economy works and he knows that it's not necessarily a bad thing for people to speculate about whether you're running for president. It means people pay more attention to the things that you're saying.

Mixed Signals

The Twitch Creators Explaining the News to Gen Z

The instant I saw that a friend of mine was streaming himself eating at Chili's. I knew it would be a cultural touchstone moment that I simply could not pass up on.