Alex Was Right
Update: 2025-10-03
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Sora 2’s selfie-movies, Meta’s Vibes, and OpenAI’s Pulse point to shorter, agentic, video-first habits—and a shrinking role for text. Even The New York Times is saying newsletters are too wordy and need more video.
* Troy Young’s People vs Algorithms newsletter
* Brian Morrissey’s The Rebooting newsletter
* Alex Schleifer’s Human Computer
* Follow Alex, Brian and Troy on Twitter
Chapters:
* 00:00 Open
* 00:21 Welcome
* 03:09 Aux Bons Crus
* 07:42 Gen Z & Find My
* 09:18 Sora 2 & Vibes
* 20:43 Pulse
* 23:57 AI In Commerce
* 30:46 NYT World Newsletter
* 37:18 People Inc. Acquired FeedFeed
* 39:40 New Creator Tools On YouTube
* 46:07 CloudFlare Metadata Signals
* 50:57 Good Product
* 56:33 Outro
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