High quality TV is downstream of On-Demand viewing.
...s. Arcs had to fit within an episode, and then reset back to basically-the-same status quo. If characters can't change over time, then you lose a ton of potential nuance.
Topic: status quo
30 chunks · 22 episodes
2.6x burst in 2024 Q4
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Topic summary
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- status quo appears in 30 chunks across 22 episodes, from 2023-10-16 to 2026-05-18.
- Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 10/14/24 (2024-10-14), with 4 observations on this topic.
- Semantically it travels with massive amount, vast majority, and Radagast, while by chunk count it sits between model provider and quantitative scale; its yearly rank moved from #17 in 2023 to #72 in 2026.
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Observations
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Big companies have a hard time being brave.
...ery layer there will be a constant gravitational pull towards the median, safe, status quo. Being brave at a large company can only happen in a large company with a well-respected founder.
A frame on organizations: they need to have plazas and warrens.
...'s impossible for novel new ideas to take root. Novel ideas must be outside the status quo; they are foreign and fragile to start. Warrens are great for novel ideas to take root. They're also great places to rock tumble new rough ideas into...
The cultural throughline of America, all the way back to the Puritans, is the ability to believe in weird stuff.
...ird stuff is bad. Sometimes it's great. But it allows things different from the status quo to accumulate and be selected over. If you have a selection function, the entity with more variance will tend to be more innovative. The departure po...
Every innovation starts off as a delusion.
...off as a delusion. An innovation requires doing something that goes against the status quo. A delusion, as far as everyone else is concerned. But some delusions, if they turn out to be useful and actually be viable, are revealed to be innov...
Clausewitz: nothing has "ever become great without audacity."
...ithout audacity." Greatness requires audacity. Something that pushes beyond the status quo. Found via this excellent article on castles in the middle ages.
You should have a stake in your data.
...everyone who interacts with and touches it. Many more stakeholders. Our current status quo is that someone else owns your data. That obviously is wrong. But a world where users "owned" their data and any collaborators couldn't do anything a...
Sarumans hate bureaucracy.
.... Although they're less likely to use the word "hate." Bureaucracy is about the status quo and downside capping. Innovation is about upside. Both the Saruman and Radagast magic are about innovation and upside. The lack of magic, the dull, d...
Immigration is the engine of the United State's continuing advantage in innovation.
...n people who decide to emigrate. Emigrating is a hard thing to break out of the status quo, it requires volition. People know that if they come here and succeed they can be accepted as truly American, not American with an asterisk. It's the...
The safe subversive style could also be described as puckish.
...is dangerous, it's only between the lines you can see how much it questions the status quo.
Cloud providers create valuable signals out of the collective actions of millions of anonymous users.
...bed it, then someone could sue them if they ever stopped. Two problems with the status quo: 1) You can't actually verify that they are using privacy preserving techniques in the pipeline. They could extract tons of personal signal out of al...
Creativity is intrinsically inefficient.
Creativity is intrinsically inefficient. Efficiency means "doing the status quo more cheaply and reliably". Creativity is variance outside the status quo, on the edge of chaos and consensus.
What matters most is positive impact in the world.
...ntralization, user empowerment) is nearly an order of magnitude better than the status quo. The overall impact to maximize is the differential fidelity to your values (compared to the status quo) multiplied by the number of people affected[...
Both Sarumans and Radagasts are suspicious of techne.
Both Sarumans and Radagasts are suspicious of techne. That is, the status quo, bureaucrat energy, the cog in the machine, the corporate zombie.
The logic of streaks is tied to prominence.
...onger the longer the streak is. To do something different than the default, the status quo, requires activation energy. That activation energy scales with how different it is. The activation energy is effectively "why now?" Lots of real wor...
Pockets are where innovative ideas come from.
Pockets are where innovative ideas come from. Things that are outside the status quo.
Creativity and conflict are two sides of the same coin.
...efault. That's what it means to be creative! A thing that is different from the status quo; that is in implicit conflict with it.
Imagine there's a high taste and innovative playbook someone has.
...ste," reified into a playbook. It produces output that is wildly outside of the status quo. You see one result from the playbook and it's super compelling, sui generis, innovative. But now imagine seeing 20 examples back to back. You'll see...
LLMs are trained on the past.
...eople with taste to differentiate themselves from the people going with the new status quo. Everyone is constantly seeking an edge; some people's variance turns out to be good, and then others follow along, and over time it becomes the new ...
The fact that you can have different thoughts than others is the reason interesting thoughts exist at all.
...thing innovative could happen. It would all just be pulled to the centroid, the status quo. And yet the boundary between our minds is hard to communicate over, and why sharing a good idea is so hard. The vast majority of human experience is...