8/10/2023

The 33 Project

Morning. Another week, another newsletter. Big updates in my life: bought neon green shoes and heading out of town tomorrow. Hopefully you’re having as lovely a morning as I am.

Let’s get into this week’s recs:

1/ Great piece on the Hollywood writers and actors strike.

…it has become clear that the only goal these corporations have in common is to gain market power and then exploit it…

Not only do I have no metrics for my own success, I don’t even know how Apple would determine those metrics in the first place.) In their mad rush off the digital cliff, these companies transformed Hollywood from a high-wage, high-profit, hits-driven industry into a low-wage, low-profit, subscription-driven one. They also broke the basic bargain at the heart of show business, which is that creative artists and independent producers will share in the financial success their work creates.

I do love thinking of it as a “the money-burning carnival”. I also appreciate that she offers a hopeful solution: regulation. From her words to the powers that be 🤞.

Photo by Jp Valery on Unsplash

2/ These water lights are incredible.

The goal is to ultimately roll out a pared-back, mass-produced version of the WaterLight across the world to…