Alex Wittenberg

More and more people will consider themselves “creators,” regardless of whether they make it a living. They will see their intellectual output as a body of work, which they can grow and evolve over time independently of themselves. The original vision of the Internet as a knowledge sharing network will come to fruition, as more and more people’s... See more

Every single action we take — calling our grandparents, cleaning up the kitchen or, today, scrolling through our phones — is a transaction. We are taking what precious little attention we have and diverting it toward something. This is a zero-sum proposition, he realized. When you pay attention to one thing, you ignore something else. 

Prospective employees have come to terms with the idea that employers will scan their profiles as part of the hiring process, so they have conducted themselves accordingly. But they are discomfited by the possibility that their digital “impression management” can be seen through to some truer level of the self. As Mayert put it, “respondents... See more

We are moving from an era of centralized, bureaucratic value creation firms to an era of decentralized, permissionless value creation networks. As organizational models change, so too will the intangible cultural artifacts created by these new institutional forms. Brands, narratives, memes—we now choose our own headless gods.

But the crucial point isn’t that it’s wrong to choose to spend your time relaxing, whether at the beach or on BuzzFeed. It’s that the distracted person isn’t really choosing at all. Their attention has been commandeered by forces that don’t have their highest interests at heart. 

I was thinking here of how isolation and loneliness, which I would sharply distinguish from solitude, can warp and disfigure our cognitive faculties. The more isolated we find ourselves, the more harrowing and disorienting the experience of uncertainty. 

Managing the progression from using AAVE to aTokens for paying expenses shall require budgeting for future costs, forecasting future revenue and considering other potential use cases for aTokens. Ultimately, the vision is to have sufficient aToken inflows to accommodate all use cases.