Emilie Kormienko

Today, web3 is largely web-native. There are almost no widely used mobile-native web3 apps. As Packy McCormick writes, “If web3 is going to be as big as the Internet, which has 4.66 billion users, it’s only penetrated less than 1% of the market.” I believe, if we are to get there, we will first see the emergence of mobile-native web3 applications... See more

When a user signs up, the in-product experience should immediately answer:  What is this product's value and how do I achieve it?

Distrust breeds more distrust. If you're already distrustful of someone, it's easy to find more confirming evidence.

Web2 was a rebuilding period. Entrepreneurs started to realize you could do more things instead of being just read-only. 

Web1: the web was read-only. Web2: the web was read and write. 

Web3 is an opportunity to own a piece of the internet. 

Governance in the metaverse: who should control it? Having one company control it is not the answer. 

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EZRA KLEIN: One thing I like about analytics is that outside of the context of simply argue about the flaws of analytics, not having them allows you to bullshit yourself a lot. Allows you to bullshit yourself about whether or not people are reading you, what you’re really doing here, are you serving an audience. But then having them allows you to... See more

When you have extraordinary achievement it seems to come in clusters - Silicon Valley is an example of that...Silicon Valley is an ambition-raising machine because you see others doing more around you.

Belief in future value is often one of the most powerful drivers of demand. Bitcoin has no cash flow, no staking rewards, nothing. It just has the belief that it could be a long term store of value to rival gold. Or more ambitious beliefs like definancialization and hyper-bitcoinization. But it’s all beliefs at the end of the day.

Web1 (1990-early 2000s) was read-only. People consumed static webpages that they navigated to from directories like Yahoo. Web1 was built on open-source protocols like HTTP.

The sixteen stories and two screenplays that make up Volume One of the Emmy® award-winning Netflix series Love, Death & Robots. Featuring best-selling authors and screenwriters from all over the globe, curated by filmmakers Tim Miller and David Fincher.