Doomscroll: Yancey Strickler II
Added 2025-07-29 19:08:56 +0000 UTCMy guest is Yancey Strickler. We discuss the theory and practice of content moderation on big platforms. Today, the “terms of service” also set the parameters of debate and have significant downstream effects on political reality.
Later on, we discuss Yancy’s background as a music critic, his early online record label and his unconventional path to becoming a co-founder of Kickstarter. We breakdown the incentives of platforms to forecast what comes next.
At the end of this episode, we discuss a new project called A-Corps. A-Corps are a lightweight co-operative model for creatives. (TLDR: your band can be an artist co-op.) It’s not software — it’s law. We get into the hard numbers around this and share some war stories about creative life without health insurance.
Comments
So much more interesting than the public, non paywalled convo.
Dan P
2025-08-27 16:10:50 +0000 UTCThis was so beautiful and refreshing. Really appreciate the gift of Yancey’s thoughtfulness about the creative process. Seemed to pinpoint what really makes creating art of any sort meaningful in this age.
Maurice
2025-08-06 09:00:11 +0000 UTCThis was really absorbing, thought-provoking, and inspiring stuff, both part 1 and 2. Would not have expected this conversation if you said "guy who started Kickstarter" so thanks for the exposure to a "new" guy. Not that I'm here for validation, but the contrast of limited creative freedom as a young visual artist vs starting a business making contraptions is something I've lived. While it's old news at this point our material conditions are embedded in a cultural and historical context, I haven't heard people talk about how our journeys as creatives, the things we often attribute to personal failures, shortcomings, or successes are also part of a broader, shifting cultural context. Suppose that's probably what reading books is for but who has time for that.
Bobby Volcano
2025-08-02 22:00:05 +0000 UTC
