Ian Vanagas
@ianvanagas
Writing about internet communities, products, creation, and crypto.
Ian Vanagas
Nearly every big platform hits escape velocity by helping people make more money.
D'arcy Coolican • The ____ Economy
Community Design and
Jeff Jordan – who’s been involved in everything from eBay to OpenTable to Airbnb – said off the cuff “the secret to everything I’ve done, and it’s not a secret, is economic empowerment. It is building things that help people make money.”
D'arcy Coolican • The ____ Economy
Vitalik famously said “even a billion dollars of capital cannot compete with a project having a soul.”
D'arcy Coolican • The ____ Economy
What do people actually want from their interactive experiences? The first insight from the pandemic era is that most formal presentations should simply be abolished. The sad reality is that hardly anyone is listening, or for that matter should be.
Bloomberg • Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
5) Are the claims in the paper falsifiable?
Eric Jang • How to Understand ML Papers Quickly
David Friedman points out that people only do things for other people for three reasons – love, money, or force. Love doesn’t scale, so the economy can only run on money or force. The force experiment has been run and found wanting. Let’s stick with money.