- 1People make beautiful things.
- 2Beautiful things are treated as commodities by platforms.
- 3“Offline is the new luxury.” Tired, but true.
- 4Streaming is usually shallow listening. Files have depth. Most of life is surface, but going deep makes it worthwhile.
- 5Streaming provides everyone access to the world’s catalog of media, but only really sustains the top 1% of creators and artists.
- 6Your favorite album was never recorded because the artist couldn’t afford it.
- 7Youtube is amazing for distribution. Instagram is amazing for distribution. Tiktok is amazing for distribution. Competing on distribution is a losing game.
- 8It’s not about replacing existing platforms. It’s about filling the niche and doing things they don’t care enough to do.
- 9Work should live everyone. The special edition should live on Files.
- 10If you have it local, you have it forever. Platforms dissapear. Favorite videos are deleted. Favorite songs have their license expired.
- 11Paying for access means access is lost unless you pay forever. Fine for most things, but not those you truly love.
- 12Subscriptions are great for creating a more dependable revenue model for creators, but both “content treadmill” and subscription fatigue are real.
- 13Vinyl went from outdated to collectible. It’s not about nolstaglia. It’s about permanence and experience.
- 14I don’t need another object in my room, but I do want proximity and access forever to things I love.
- 15Web3 got some things right about ownership and collectibility, but let’s scrap the ponzi economics.
- 16Not all software has to eat the world. Chill out.
- 17It’s (still) time for files.