Ian Vanagas
@ianvanagas
Writing about internet communities, products, creation, and crypto.
Ian Vanagas
Our relation to ideas is an inextricable symbiosis, like that between plant and pollinator, a mutualism in which neither can survive without the other. At the dawn of civilization, a covenant was made between humans and these alien entities that live in our minds—honor and respect each other and all will flourish beyond their wildest dreams.
Roger's Bacon • Ideas are Alive and You are Dead
Community Design and
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.
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
NFTs provide access to things people want. People value access to scarce resources; therefore, access is worth money. Money has always been traded for access and will continue to do so. NFTs are internet-native keys to access events, communities, identities, future benefits, people and status.
Ian Vanagas • NFTs Are All About Access
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.
Ben Horowitz • Nobody Cares | Andreessen Horowitz
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