Emilie Kormienko

Like a wildfire after years of drought, The Pattern is spreading through our digital commons, and seeping into the hearts and minds of humanity. The Pattern is stifling our creative potential. It is poisoning our culture. And it is standing in the way of our ability to live well and flourish.

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.

Creative work gets lost if you don't have a platform to discover budding talent.

This trust framework extends to the software that runs Web3 platforms: key operations can be encoded on the blockchain in “smart contracts” that are auditable and immutable. This makes it possible for a platform designer to commit upfront to certain design features, such as pricing rules, royalty agreements, and user reward mechanics.

Web2 (early 2000s-today) is read and write. People create and consume content on the social platforms that we're all familiar with. In web2, tech giants extract value from users by sitting in the middle. Web2 is built on client-server architecture where users are the client, and companies control the servers.

C. THI NGUYEN: The structure of games is not that the points are valuable, but that the attempt to get those points, the attempts to win the game and the game’s terms sculpt some kind of interesting or beautiful activity. 

Your tokens are stored on a public address. Your ability to access them requires a key (or your seed phrase). You need to keep your seed phrase safe to protect your assets. Never give your private key to anyone else. 

Using two-factor authorization for your exchange account is necessary.

Be wary of phishing attacks where hackers send a fraudulent

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