Things that disappoint me
I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time – when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the... See more
Angus Hervey • The End of Inevitability
But in general, we’re going to get to a point where you’re a business, you come to us, you tell us what your objective is, you connect to your bank account, you don’t need any creative, you don’t need any targeting demographic, you don’t need any measurement, except to be able to read the results that we spit out.
Mark Zuckerberg just declared war on the entire advertising industry
Zuckerberg on the future of advertising
The #1 Custom Bedtime Story Generator and Narrator
sleepytales.aiI don’t know how to feel about it this - on one hand it seems interesting and probably more engaging for the kids - yet on the other it feels like another tool that’s creating distance between the humans. The memories of reading to my kids - making up stories for them etc is a treasure - to have it outsourced to an ai just - feels - - weird?!
Musicians compose their tracks with TikTok’s length in
mind, and then title them exclusively for SEO. The figure and ground have been reversed: artists don’t upload their music for distribution, they
make music for distribution.
Matt Klein • Page Not Found
Life, put simply, is all about status. I recently read W. David Marx’s book Status and Culture —thanks Bryce Ferguson for the rec—and that fact was my clear takeaway. The book subtly changed how I look at the world; when you start to pay attention, status dictates nearly everything in our lives.
In the book, Marx argues that:
In the book, Marx argues that:
- There is no human
Clicks & Clout: How We Seek Status In the Digital Age
Wrapping my head around this - what if status is not aspirational in nature?
Carl Sagan’s ‘Foreboding of an America’
youtube.comYep!
people don't believe what they see; they see what they believe.
Angus Hervey • The End of Inevitability
Despite working with DeFi teams for the last 5 years, I think onchain finance is a better name for whats happening.
Decentralization is an important substrate, the real pull is the increase in utility and value when an asset comes onchain turns into a money lego.
Whether an asset is blockchain-native or a real-world asset will matter less and less.
E... See more
Decentralization is an important substrate, the real pull is the increase in utility and value when an asset comes onchain turns into a money lego.
Whether an asset is blockchain-native or a real-world asset will matter less and less.
E... See more
Ken Deeter • Tweet
Greed will make the system, no? @victoriajane ?
New billboard in LA’s Valley - kinda feels like “USA 2025”