Ian Vanagas
@ianvanagas
Writing about internet communities, products, creation, and crypto.
Ian Vanagas
Vitalik famously said “even a billion dollars of capital cannot compete with a project having a soul.”
D'arcy Coolican • The ____ Economy
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
It is a bad sign when a large percentage of members are declaring information bankruptcy. It means the community is providing too much information members don’t care about. They aren’t helping members make sense of that information.
Ian Vanagas • Community Information Bankruptcy
Mural is a collaborative intelligence company | Mural
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Information bankruptcy is a common problem for communities to have. When there is too much information to absorb, members often give up on absorbing any of it at all. It’s a play off of email bankruptcy, where someone ignores or deletes all emails beyond a certain date.
Ian Vanagas • Community Information Bankruptcy
LLMs are mid. It does a good job at getting the average and this is useful in many areas where this is tough. When you want "good", LLMs let you down. We underestimate the impact doing things to a "mid" level will have on the world.
Paris is not in pursuit of perfection. "Most of my shit's bad," she laughs, "I'm not trying to act like I'm some savant, like this is some fucking Picasso shit." She points to her friend, prolific YouTuber and filmmaker Casey Neistat. "He's like 'I won't put anything out there they don't think is amazing and I don't give a fuck how people receive... See more