Making content that lasts

The odds are high that you’ll create some kind of content today, with the majority of it likely being on social media. Will it last?

Seth Godin recently shared about the “cultural half-life” of ideas, and how our world is moving increasingly toward vaporous ideas that come and go as the social media algorithms move on to the next click of the day.

There’s really two aspects to what Seth is trying to say: systems and content.

Systems