Ian Vanagas
@ianvanagas
Writing about internet communities, products, creation, and crypto.
Ian Vanagas
The personal computing revolution succeeded and we are all miserable. The dream of personal computing as augmentation for the intellect, and the joyful, radical counterculture that arose around the first PC’s has given way to our increasingly dismal present.
Anton Troynikov • Remixable Software - Guest Post
Gabriel Leydon - Designing Digital Economies - Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Pocket Castspca.st
Game Design and
Framing matters a lot. Spending for the benefit of the group feels a lot better than spending solely for yourself. People ideally want both.
Invest like the Best • Gabriel Leydon - Designing Digital Economies - Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
ideas and
As a writer, looking for evidence of readership and engagement on Twitter makes you into the drunk looking for your lost keys under the street light.
robinsloan.com • The lost thread
The next time you are attending a formal presentation at a conference, ask yourself these questions: Is this better than all of those Zoom calls I am turning down? Is this better than the next best YouTube clip I might be watching? For most people, the answers are obvious. Conference organizers need to be willing to pull the trigger and usher the... See more
Bloomberg • Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
Hypefury - Schedule & Automate Social Media Marketing
hypefury.com
All the mental energy that you use to elaborate your misery would be far better used trying to find the one, seemingly impossible way out of your current mess.