Ian Vanagas
@ianvanagas
Writing about internet communities, products, creation, and crypto.
Ian Vanagas
Companies talked about "delighting their users" because they ran out of ideas.
Invest like the Best • Gabriel Leydon - Designing Digital Economies - Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
The group chat doesn’t have the same feeling of presence or provide an environment to interact with that in-person hangouts do.
Ian Vanagas • The Group Chat Could Be So Much More
We are in the age of hyper-competition. Being a big spender is a seductive way to make you feel like you belong.
Invest like the Best • Gabriel Leydon - Designing Digital Economies - Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Community Design and
He defines creative activities is anything helping create something new and lasting.
Jim Collins • #361: Jim Collins — A Rare Interview with a Reclusive Polymath - The Tim Ferriss Show
High-modernist (think Bauhaus and Le Corbusier) aesthetics necessarily lead to simplification, since a reality that serves many purposes presents itself as illegible to a vision informed by a singular purpose. Any elements that are non-functional with respect to the singular purpose tend to confuse, and are therefore eliminated during the attempt... See more