Moving forward and along
Yesterday, I sat down and tried to achieve a state of extreme focus. It was a big day: the 199th Lindahl Letter went out, and I started drafting the big 200th edition. Spoiler alert on that one: the initial 200th edition draft was pretty boring and otherwise disappointing. We have a few days between now and Friday where something better could be created. I have been considering moving my weekly research notes to a monthly format that is more like a paper than the shorter research notes that get distributed each week. That would move my content creation pattern from 52 weekly research notes diving into topics to a more targeted set of 12 deeper reviews. That seems like a plausible path to take as we move forward and along the path to a perfect possible future.
This morning, I watched the movie Limitless (2011) on streaming and realized the Kansas City Chiefs preseason game is on the NFL app this evening. It’s nice that the NFL allows all the preseason games to be streamed on the app without any complexity. During the regular season, we pretty much have to watch whatever games are on the over-the-air broadcast channels, and that means national games. It works out well enough, but we won’t get all the Kansas City Chiefs games. I’m not planning on paying for the stand-alone Sunday Ticket this year as the $480 cost is just not worth it. On a pay-per-game basis, it's pretty expensive to get a few extra Kansas City Chiefs games. It would be better if they just offered an actual game rental pay-per-view system where I could pay like $19.99 to watch the out-of-market Kansas City Chiefs game based on the ones I want to sit down and watch. They could effectively treat the game like renting a movie. Instead, they are bundling a total watching package, which is great for people who want to jump into the deep end of NFL content.
It’s interesting to think that people are moving away from the socials and walled gardens like Medium, Substack, and other forums for people to write are gaining some steam in the marketplace of ideas. We are at an inflection point where what was the traditional open internet is quickly becoming gated by your language model provider of choice. I tend to use ChatGPT and even pay them a small amount each month to OpenAI. Nobody really wants to be inundated with SLOP, and that is what is starting to happen a lot more than it should be based on the lack of guardrails that exist to protect online users. We never really were able to stop SPAM, so it's not all that surprising I guess that SLOP would end up flooding the marketplace of online content.