Personal experience and the open internet

Are we entering the end of social media as we know it ? Is this the end of blogs and revival of paper books ?

As i read this article:

https://open.substack.com/pub/benn/p/the-end-of-yc

I came across the passage that I have screenshot and attached here. Got me thinking.

If personal experience is the differentiator, then i should not be giving it away cheap. And if i do that, then i am going to be part-walling all my content and knowledge. That will mean all the knowledge will vanish off the ‘free’ internet. And then there will be no data to train off. So the LLMs will stagnate.

But then how will people monetise their knowledge ? Books !! Paper books ?!?!

I really miss those times. Let’s see where this leads us.