Michael Elling
@infostack.bsky.social
ICT/TMT strategist/analyst. Focus on #equilibrism and #informationvelocity. Marvel every day at the $300tr of debt foisted on humanity by neoliberal policies over the past 40 years. Always biked; late to moto's. #ManU #fedi22 #Triumph
Specifics? Otherwise merely banal criticism.
December 22, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Specifics? Otherwise merely banal criticism.
Hopefully one of those layers is a scalable settlement ecosystem that provides incentives and disincentives, facilitates universal access to information, and finally a mechanism for value sharing. Paywalls simply do not scale and silo information.
December 21, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Hopefully one of those layers is a scalable settlement ecosystem that provides incentives and disincentives, facilitates universal access to information, and finally a mechanism for value sharing. Paywalls simply do not scale and silo information.
It lacked incentives and disincentives to promote the type of discourse you wanted. (and want)
December 21, 2025 at 1:03 PM
It lacked incentives and disincentives to promote the type of discourse you wanted. (and want)
When will you accept that the open, permissionless, anonymous and settlement-free ecosystem from the 1990s is what got us into this mess?
December 21, 2025 at 1:02 PM
When will you accept that the open, permissionless, anonymous and settlement-free ecosystem from the 1990s is what got us into this mess?
So what if we built an app and ecosystem for the reader and/or commenter that does exactly what you propose? It might solve the paywall crisis and ad-tech problems simultaneously by redirecting existing revenue streams and creating something more generative. infostack.substack.com/p/taking-pow...
Taking Power Back From The Platforms
How Publishing Can Change the Playing Field On The Platforms
infostack.substack.com
March 31, 2025 at 9:39 PM
So what if we built an app and ecosystem for the reader and/or commenter that does exactly what you propose? It might solve the paywall crisis and ad-tech problems simultaneously by redirecting existing revenue streams and creating something more generative. infostack.substack.com/p/taking-pow...
Freaky, in my case, all of Manhattan is gone! I remember decades ago flying into LA several times a quarter on the late flight and getting hives as I watched the metroplex grid unscroll after Palm Springs knowing there was no reasonable way out from LAX other than flying. Driving would take hours.
March 31, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Freaky, in my case, all of Manhattan is gone! I remember decades ago flying into LA several times a quarter on the late flight and getting hives as I watched the metroplex grid unscroll after Palm Springs knowing there was no reasonable way out from LAX other than flying. Driving would take hours.
What if we were to apply universal service principles from bygone telco days to the content and publishing stacks, making access to news universally affordable and relevant. It can be done, because the money is there. We're just not positioned to grab it. infostack.substack.com/p/taking-pow...
Taking Power Back From The Platforms
How Publishing Can Change the Playing Field On The Platforms
infostack.substack.com
March 31, 2025 at 9:11 PM
What if we were to apply universal service principles from bygone telco days to the content and publishing stacks, making access to news universally affordable and relevant. It can be done, because the money is there. We're just not positioned to grab it. infostack.substack.com/p/taking-pow...
Funnily enough when the pandemic hit and zoom ascended (Skype was already on the descent) our society got stuck with 20 year old technology! Time to rethink our approach to 2-way digital networked ecosystems that are generative and sustainable. The right tech stack would have brought 2-way 8K video!
March 31, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Funnily enough when the pandemic hit and zoom ascended (Skype was already on the descent) our society got stuck with 20 year old technology! Time to rethink our approach to 2-way digital networked ecosystems that are generative and sustainable. The right tech stack would have brought 2-way 8K video!
Watch the latest episode of 1923. Somewhere in Wyoming...
March 31, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Watch the latest episode of 1923. Somewhere in Wyoming...
Maybe there is a way around Haile’s first law of media. Fool them into going flat and opening up their silos to save themselves: infostack.substack.com/p/taking-pow...
Taking Power Back From The Platforms
How Publishing Can Change the Playing Field On The Platforms
infostack.substack.com
March 31, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Maybe there is a way around Haile’s first law of media. Fool them into going flat and opening up their silos to save themselves: infostack.substack.com/p/taking-pow...
"Netflix is a steroidal company, pumped up by lies and deceit, and has broken all of Hollywood’s rules." Pretty much sums up all 3 major digital tsunamis of the past 30 years: cable/video, telco/internet, gaming/crypto. All 3 converged to create today's societal scale sociopathy and sycophancy.
March 31, 2025 at 7:44 PM
"Netflix is a steroidal company, pumped up by lies and deceit, and has broken all of Hollywood’s rules." Pretty much sums up all 3 major digital tsunamis of the past 30 years: cable/video, telco/internet, gaming/crypto. All 3 converged to create today's societal scale sociopathy and sycophancy.
No doubt a reason why Timothy Snyder left.
March 31, 2025 at 7:22 PM
No doubt a reason why Timothy Snyder left.
Coming a little late to the table, but would happily chat about some ideas around "accelerating and amplifying global innovation before the world burns". DM me if you'd like to chat. infostack.substack.com/p/burn-it-al...
Burn It All Down
Or Maybe Not? Mapping New Internet Economics
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March 31, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Coming a little late to the table, but would happily chat about some ideas around "accelerating and amplifying global innovation before the world burns". DM me if you'd like to chat. infostack.substack.com/p/burn-it-al...
As an aside, few recognize (including Isaacson) to this day that Jobs singlehandedly resurrected equal access and bifurcated the carriers around layers 3-4 via an RF agnostic iOS enabling his app ecosystem to perform consistently regardless of network connection. www.ivpcapital.com/blog/view/12...
IVP Capital TMT Advisory - SpectralShifts Weekly
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March 31, 2025 at 7:14 PM
As an aside, few recognize (including Isaacson) to this day that Jobs singlehandedly resurrected equal access and bifurcated the carriers around layers 3-4 via an RF agnostic iOS enabling his app ecosystem to perform consistently regardless of network connection. www.ivpcapital.com/blog/view/12...
Perhaps there is a form of digital network ju-jitsu to shut down his mouthpiece.
March 31, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Perhaps there is a form of digital network ju-jitsu to shut down his mouthpiece.
2/ maybe its time we rethink all of these networked models before it is too late. Or is it already?
March 31, 2025 at 6:56 PM
2/ maybe its time we rethink all of these networked models before it is too late. Or is it already?
1/ One must appreciate that the internet was the original grift, which gave way to online commerce and social media, which were also grifts, then crypto (which seemingly isn't a grift, but is) and now AI is the biggest grift. Substitute "arbitrage" for "grift" above and it may be better understood.
March 31, 2025 at 6:56 PM
1/ One must appreciate that the internet was the original grift, which gave way to online commerce and social media, which were also grifts, then crypto (which seemingly isn't a grift, but is) and now AI is the biggest grift. Substitute "arbitrage" for "grift" above and it may be better understood.
Sorry, just read your post of several months ago; "Gulf of Small Dick Energy"
March 25, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Sorry, just read your post of several months ago; "Gulf of Small Dick Energy"
They are definitely not happy being co-opted: www.lettucefunk.com
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March 25, 2025 at 3:20 PM
They are definitely not happy being co-opted: www.lettucefunk.com
No comments. Maybe because the content is paywalled? Such a shame. There is a better way; where content creators are paid and readers engage in positive ways. Just forget everything the internet taught you. Better yet use the power built up through the internet against itself. Digital jiu-jitsu
March 25, 2025 at 3:06 PM
No comments. Maybe because the content is paywalled? Such a shame. There is a better way; where content creators are paid and readers engage in positive ways. Just forget everything the internet taught you. Better yet use the power built up through the internet against itself. Digital jiu-jitsu
Unfortunately I played a minor (perhaps major) role in Orban's rise to power back in the mid to late 1990s. It's too bad good content is getting siloed in paywalls. We the medieval digital age enter.
March 25, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Unfortunately I played a minor (perhaps major) role in Orban's rise to power back in the mid to late 1990s. It's too bad good content is getting siloed in paywalls. We the medieval digital age enter.
Few appreciate that the internet has imbalanced risk in ways that nobody imagined for the simple fact that anonymous, permissionless, and settlement-free meant that all risk is on the receiver in a transaction, almost never upon the sender.
March 25, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Few appreciate that the internet has imbalanced risk in ways that nobody imagined for the simple fact that anonymous, permissionless, and settlement-free meant that all risk is on the receiver in a transaction, almost never upon the sender.