OVERVIEW

Innovative Hype is my newsletter. It started in 2019 as a place to think out loud about the music industry and the platforms artists use to reach fans. It grew to cover prediction markets, AI, sports business, crypto and the economy, and in 2023 it added a podcast where I chop it up with builders and creatives.

ESSAYS & ROUNDUPS

November 1, 2025Gambling Crackdown Rocks the NBA, AWS Stumbles, and MTV’s Music Era Ends
Innovative Hype Roundup November 1, 2025
October 17, 2025Prediction Markets Go Mainstream, AI Dominates GDP Growth, & The Middle Class Is At Risk
Innovative Hype Roundup October 17 2025
June 4, 2025AI & The Social Contract: Competing Visions For Our Future
Last month, a small town museum in Ohio advertised a single opening for an administrative assistant. Within forty‑eight hours more than four hundred résumés poured in: from mid‑career librarians displaced by…
October 1, 2024Innovative Hype Roundup September 2024
Elon Musk Loves Texas, Tom Brady was right about rookie quarterbacks, Meta's Innovation, Nike Skirting Caitlin Clark & More. Catch up on Business, Tech, Sports, Music, & Texas news
January 11, 2024The Case for Microeconomies
The Network State's Little Brother
January 3, 2024From Mayo Showers to Media Monopoly: ESPN's Hand in Bowl Mania and the Quest for a True CFB Champion
The Growing Pains of an Evolving League Leaning Into Its Legitimacy
August 2, 2023How Messi's Next Gen Jordan Deal Ushers In A New Era for Major League Soccer
Messi's Gravitational Pull & Inter Miami's Cinderella Season Potential
December 5, 2019Making Music In Public
The isolated past of music making and it’s public future
August 20, 2019My 2019 DIY Musician Conference Experience
some learnings from the 2019 DIY musician conference
August 8, 2019It’s Your Fault You Don’t Have a Direct Relationship with Your Fans
Re: “Data silos prevent artists from being able to treat themselves as legitimate, always-on brands.”
May 19, 2019Audio-First Spotify and The Ever Increasing Space of Audio
Welcome to the first installment of Innovative Hype Weekly.

PODCAST

July 20, 2023The Innovative Hype Podcast 004: Creativity, Pursuing Your Passion & Web3
Chopping It Up With Photoniceth, The Storytelling Poet
July 19, 2023The Innovative Hype Podcast 003: Securities, The SEC, The Federal Reserve, & CBDCs - Chopping it up with Henry Minden of Yacht Labs
Chopping it up with Henry Minden of Yacht Labs
May 29, 2023The Innovative Hype Podcast 002: Permanent Storage on Arweave, Data Democracy, & People-Powered Finance In a Post Fiat World
Chopping it up with Dameon of Arcademy
May 26, 2023The Innovative Hype Podcast 001: Chopping it up with Jack Sheps of Mad Masks NFT
Episode 001: Chopping it up with Jack Sheps of Mad Masks NFT