Ads as a societal good, the looming chip shortage, and the future of media, with Ben Thompson
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Ben Thompson is the founder and author of Strathecory, a newsletter that everyone in tech reads to make sense of what's happening. He's also early to the premium newsletter model that's become very popular in media nowadays. For many years, he ran Strathecory as a solo founder in Taiwan. Cheers. Good to see you.
Cheers. It
feels like people in San Francisco have not properly discovered Taiwan as a tourist destination. Like, do you agree with that characterization?
Unless you're recommendation. Always ask me about Asia and the way I always characterize Taiwan is there's lots of great places to visit in Asia. And I would also put Japan on the list. But I like to think I went to Japan before it was cool.
Yeah, nothing against Japan. Well, whole
thing with Japan is going to Japan pre smart phone was a completely different experience than going
there post smartphone. Like,
you think, oh, the subway system's amazing, the trains. Try navigating that no smartphones and nothing's in English. Like like, Japan used to be very low on English. It's still lower than places like Taiwan.
It's surprisingly low.
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