The End of Average

Great perspective from Ben Thompson on how today's internet flips the bell curve into a power curve, and what that means for anyone producing content which is not best-of-breed: "The implication of news consumption being dominated by the tall skinny part of the power curve is that those who can regularly appear there – the best of the best – are going to win ... what then of the millions of others ... who are perfectly average and thus, in an age where the best is only a click away, are simply not needed?... The reality of the Internet is that there is no more bell curve; power laws dominate, and the challenge of our time is figuring out what to do with a population distribution that is fundamentally misaligned with Internet economics." - FiveThirtyEight and the End of Average | stratēchery by Ben Thompson