Depression - it falls into that small category of things like combat that, if you haven't been in it, you can say you can imagine it all you like. But it's truly different. | | | | Linkin Park's Chester Bennington dead at 41. He brought happiness to so many but couldn't find it for himself. R.I.P.
(Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “Depression - it falls into that small category of things like combat that, if you haven't been in it, you can say you can imagine it all you like. But it's truly different.”
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| | rantnrave:// Continuing on my theme of overreaction is an eye-roll from the last few months. The media journos have been writing about NETFLIX content spending and show cancellations. This is a non-story. At least right now it is. NETFLIX spent money that sent the people in HOLLYWOOD spinning. They had no problem with their content spends when they were licensing library from studios and networks. Meaning, licensing from them. Then Netflix spent on their own ORIGINALS. Competitors again complained they were spending too much. They had some hits. Not sure what the ratio of solid hit to throw away is. But they had them. And they got more than their share of the cultural zeitgeist. And that spending drove unprecedented growth. The spending is a content and market share BLITZKRIEG ("an intense military campaign intended to bring about a swift victory"). "It will pay dividends for years." You see, companies with different DNA than the media business (Netflix is a hybrid of the valley and Hollywood) look at spending in their formative years differently. This was a land grab. An AMAZONian land grab. A bet that if they could get to 100 Million subscribers that the numbers would make sense. Well, guess what? It did. And it's worldwide. And now, like any business that is so far ahead of its competitors, it's taking stock of where it is and revising their slate and taking a look at how to spend. In a world where media businesses are trying to figure out how to go direct to the consumer, build reliable subscription businesses, and massive amounts of audience data you'd think that they would have mimicked the plan. Well, I still see nets and studios not moving fast on this. Yes, trying stuff out, but no real big successes yet (though STARZ and others are making good headway). Netflix is course adjusting but they are exactly where they want to be. It was a plan. Competitors should try one. It requires lots of money and patience... LINKIN PARK's frontman was a shrieking metal singer with a golden pop touch. A voice of angst and anguish who brought comfort and connection to his fans. His contradictions helped make him one of the defining voices of 2000s rock. He took his own life at 41. His anguish was resulted in amazing music that brought his fans much happiness even when he couldn't find it for himself. The late CHRIS CORNELL was a close friend, mentor, and idol. Chester took his life on what would have been Chris' birthday. A massive talent, an even greater loss. Condolences to family, friends, and fans. COLLISION COURSE, their 2004 mash-up with JAY-Z is still one of my favorite albums ever... MusicSET: "Chester Bennington's Screaming Life"... Wow, FORBES seems really out of it and old with this headline. The next big thing? I wonder if they know that BIGGIE got shot... Straight from the source: these standout podcasts offer a mix of firsthand experience, storytelling, and funny moments from the worlds of fashion and retail. FashionSET: "Listen Up, Fashion"... NBA SUMMER LEAGUE is a Las Vegas basketball bacchanal. For years, it was a niche convention for NBA insiders, and the fringe playing for a way in. After ratings and attendance jumps, it's the NBA's breakout star. Its pull into mainstream has helped turn the league into a nearly year-round sport. SportsSET: "The NBA's Summer Fling"... Happy Birthday to SAM LESSIN, ROY PRICE, JON COHEN, ANDREW MAINS, DREW BUCKLEY, HILARY ROWLAND, DAVID WAKSMAN. | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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 | The Stranger |
| How do you present Hell on earth? For Christopher Nolan, the answer is to do it in ultra-high-definition 70 mm IMAX. | | |
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 | Bloomberg |
| Conservative broadcaster Sinclair continues to grow, and has flirted with the idea of a national news network. | | |
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 | Longreads |
| He was was a self-made, blue-collar millionaire in Reagan’s America. But when Percy Ross decided to give away his fortune, he made things simple: all you had to do was ask for it. | | |
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 | Topic |
| How does someone get away with helping a foreign adversary? We dig into the gonzo story of an American acquitted of spying for the Soviets--even after he confessed to it. | | |
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 | The Verge |
| When it came time to design their first restaurant, Media Noche, San Francisco entrepreneurs Madelyn Markoe and Jessie Barker found themselves lacking inspiration. Their designer had asked them for ideas and they felt like "deer in headlights." Ultimately, Markoe says, they came up with a single instruction: "We wanted to be Instagrammable." | | |
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 | BuzzFeed |
| MTV used to be closely in tune with youth culture, creating cultural phenomena instead of merely covering them. Now, it looks like they’re just trying to catch up. | | |
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 | TED Talks |
| Right now, billions of neurons in your brain are working together to generate a conscious experience -- and not just any conscious experience, your experience of the world around you and of yourself within it. How does this happen? According to neuroscientist Anil Seth, we're all hallucinating all the time; when we agree about our hallucinations, we call it "reality." | | |
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 | Deadspin |
| When Ramzan Kadyrov stepped into the Akhmat-Arena in Grozny on a brisk December morning in 2014, a sinister smile crept across his bearded face. Dressed in black, the longtime head of the Chechen Republic surveyed the scene within the country's primary soccer stadium, where 20,000 soldiers dressed in fatigues stood in place of the sports fans who usually occupied the bleachers. | | |
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 | Quartz |
| Today, Patel Brothers has splintered into an $140-million emporium. | | |
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 | Forbes |
| David Eun, president of Samsung's innovation arm Samsung Next, joins the Forbes Interview to discuss the future of TVs, phones, VR, and Smart-homes. He also shares how surviving the 2013 Asiana Airlines crash in San Francisco changed his outlook on work and life. | | |
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 | McKinsey & Company |
| Risk aversion, weak customer focus, and siloed mind-sets have long bedeviled organizations. In a digital world, solving these cultural problems is no longer optional. | | |
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 | Peter Diamandis |
| Sex is one of the most powerful, fundamental human drives. It's caused wars… built and destroyed kingdoms. It occupies a significant percentage of most people's thoughts.As such, it's worth a conversation about how exponential technologies will change our relationship with sex. This blog (Part 1 of 2) is a look at the future of sex, dating, and finding a mate. | | |
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 | Hollywood Reporter |
| With her Hulu breakout scoring 13 Emmy noms, including best actress, television's reigning (and surprisingly foul-mouthed) star opens up about Season 2 and her political awakening: "I'm a staunch believer in women's rights. I don't really give a s- about anybody who isn't." | | |
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 | SamHarrisOrg |
| In this episode of the Waking Up podcast, Sam Harris and Scott Adams debate the character and competence of President Trump. | | |
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 | Hunter Walk |
| I love podcasts. Not just as a consumer but from a societal perspective because there's so much about the medium which reminds me of other formats (text, video, music) where technology has played a significant role in helping creators explore their talents, build audience and make money. | | |
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| Hollywood Reporter |
| Was a tragedy during the production of Cruise's 'American Made' preventable? Conflicting accounts and a pilot in a "death pool" raise questions about safety and the filmmakers' role in it all: "Hollywood cut corners." | | |
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| Bloomberg |
| Authentic Brands, which also owns Muhammad Ali and Marilyn Monroe, values dead celebs on their social media presence and the spending power of their fans. | | |
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 | High Snobiety |
| While shops like Supreme have stores in New York, London, Paris, and all over Japan, their fanbase undeniably stretches beyond those cities. The Internet has made it (a little) easier to get your hands on rare gear, but the online community united by a shared passion for labels like Supreme have been galvanized by social media like forums and Facebook groups. | | |
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 | TIME |
| Including sending armed law enforcement agents to polling places. | | |
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 | Salon |
| Steve Bannon is back in the news. In its first day on sale, a narrative of his role in Donald Trump's presidential campaign, Joshua Green's "Devil's Bargain," has hit number one in book sales on Amazon. We're republishing this story from April which highlights a unique aspect of Bannon's political life, one not found in that of any other influential American political figure today. | | |
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 | Huck Magazine |
| From Bowie to Gaga, Daft Punk to Snoop, Mick Rock has shot them all and lived to tell the tale - just about. | | |
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 | recode |
| The forces governing business today might just come down to understanding the difference between "weapon" and "tool." | | |
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 | The Drum |
| UK ad rule-makers, the ASA and the CAP, have introduced measures to clamp down on offensive ads that perpetrate sexist stereotypes, underlining that work featuring unhealthy depictions of each gender is still being created and distributed by agencies. | | |
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