Ian Vanagas
@ianvanagas
Writing about internet communities, products, creation, and crypto.
Ian Vanagas
The stories create demand and the NFTs provide the scarcity. Scarcity helps enable status.
Ian Vanagas • NFTs Are All About Access
Twitter’s only conclusion can be abandonment: an overdue MySpace-ification. I am totally confident about this prediction, but that’s an easy confidence, because in the long run, we’re all MySpace-ified. The only question, then, is how many more possibilities will go unexplored? How much more time will be wasted?
robinsloan.com • The lost thread
An accurate definition of an internet “creator” would have to be: someone whose income is determined by a platform’s algorithms.
Robin Sloan • Definitions
Literal access: Either you have access to what is behind the NFT or not. Psychological access: a signal of crypto interest, creates opportunities, ingroup.
Ian Vanagas • NFTs Are All About Access
The number of them that actually learn all the important stuff in under a month is zero. The number of them that have a self-guided strategy to learn what is relevant is almost zero.
Tyler Cowen • “Context is that which is scarce”
The group chat doesn’t have the same feeling of presence or provide an environment to interact with that in-person hangouts do.
Ian Vanagas • The Group Chat Could Be So Much More
1) What are the inputs to the function approximator?
Eric Jang • How to Understand ML Papers Quickly
Nearly every big platform hits escape velocity by helping people make more money.