Emilie Kormienko

In the end, we cannot control our luck—good or bad—but we can control our effort and preparation. Luck smiles on us all from time to time. And when it does, the way to honor your good fortune is to work hard and make the most of it.

When I encounter some new decision, or some fork in the road, I ask myself, “Will I regret having done this, or not having done this, as I’m laying on my deathbed?” It’s a bit morbid and uncomfortable, but damn is it clarifying. Because it always points me in the direction my soul yearns to go, and it undermines the stories my intellect has spun up... See more

Today’s dominant internet platforms are built on aggregating users and user data. As these platforms have grown, so has their ability to provide value — thanks to the power of network effects — which has enabled them to stay ahead.

There’s nothing wrong with spelling things out in detail for people if your product needs to be complex, but remember that the longer the onboarding process, the more necessary it will be to show new users some form of progress throughout it.

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This, then, is the magic of the design of TikTok: it is a closed loop of feedback which inspires and enables the creation and viewing of videos on which its algorithm can be trained.For its algorithm to become as effective as it has, TikTok became its own source of training data.

Social tokens can be used to represent a wide range of access rights, from a person’s time, access to an exclusive group, or partial ownership of a community treasury. Their use cases can also evolve, with more features added over time.

On the face of it, crypto and nation state sovereignty are mutually exclusive. Their logic and rationale are inconsistent: one is based on the idea of a dominant central authority, while the other is build on a consensual network of decentralised users.