Ian Vanagas

Arcades should help members prioritize their path into a community. It should help them make decisions about where they want to go and what they want to do. If users know what information is important to them, they can make this decision better. The community arcade should give a view into the community from the outside without overwhelming users.

He defines creative activities is anything helping create something new and lasting.

Jim aims for an average of 1000 creative hours over a 365 day period. Can be more, but can never be less (and has never been over 10 years).

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

Thiel blamed the "gerontocrats" for Bitcoin's failure to reach $100,000 pinning blame on Warren Buffett, whom he called a “sociopathic grandpa,” as well as Dimon, the 66-year-old chief executive officer of JPMorgan who called bitcoin a "fraud" on multiple occasions, and BlackRock's Larry Fink, 69, who recently ran the Fed's direct corporate bond... See more

We are in the age of hyper-competition. Being a big spender is a seductive way to make you feel like you belong.

I should be able to scroll through the history of my browsing as an enormous branching graph that I can annotate, travel around, share with others, and version.