Alex Wittenberg

The tools for public conversation should exist outside of private companies as common infrastructure, like the Internet itself. An open and durable decentralized protocol for public conversations can allow users a choice in their experience, creators control over their relationships with their audience, and developers freedom to innovate without... See more

In other words, companies are valuable when they continuously extract value for shareholders. Protocols are valuable when they continuously create value for the public. ([View Highlight](https://instapaper.com/read/1492780094/19098815))Tokenized communities can take many forms, but they can be defined by the following:

The common thread is: identity systems create the ability to reliably associate information with a unique identifier. An identity system is more reliable, and therefore useful, the more it is:Dependable: available, fault-tolerant, tamper-resistantFlexible: can handle more types of informationAccessible: can be used across more contexts, unifying... See more

If the Fed jacks up interest rates, growth assets could tank short-term. Ham-fisted crypto regulation is a legitimate concern. Markets never go straight up. Even though global equities and the Nasdaq have compounded at a roughly 10.5% CAGR and ended up and to the right, there were a lot of bumps along the way. Please don’t mortgage your house and... See more

I’ve stood sentinel, I confess. Feeling at once the draw of the spectacle and the urge to bear witness, knowing, to some degree, the evident limits of both, and trying to embrace my own distinction between, on the one hand, having my attention captured and, on the other, attending to the world. 

Second Brains are a critical part of the democratization of education, providing a place for learners to take note of, organize, and engage with knowledge as they navigate the endless self-guided learning resources they find online. And Second Brains even play a part in humanity’s spiritual journey, helping us externalize our thoughts and emotions... See more

We’ll never get the upper hand in our relationship with the moments of our lives because we are nothing but those moments. To “master” them would first entail getting outside of them, splitting off from them. But where would we go? “Time is the substance I am made of,” writes Jorge Luis Borges. “Time is a river that sweeps me along, but I am the... See more

As a result, Digital Writers are usually the ones who go from never having written anything online before to suddenly accumulating hundreds of thousands, even millions of views—and more importantly, turning those views and proven content buckets into paid products, newsletters, services, and businesses. Why? Because they're the ones with the data.