Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️

I still *really* don't understand why there isn't a digital wallet I can just load up and use to buy single articles from any major publication on the fly, zero friction. I'm not happy with paying $50-250/year for one pie when what I clearly want is a spread of slices.

Sound like you basically want to crowdsource/democratise the editorial process. The Facebook newsfeed kind of already does that, and that's resulted in most people feasting on a diet of garbage content.

This is the narrative, yes

Doesn't the existing model mean that you semi-regularly come across random content/knowledge that you otherwise never would have discovered? Isn't that worth something?

If I wanted to buy that, I would. I don't. I follow a group of ridiculously intelligent people who consistently direct my limited attention and time toward really, really superb ideas. I get a lot more out of their curation than that of newspaper editors.