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The game has shifted, and the winning strategy with it. It’s no longer about understanding specialized details; it’s about grasping the high-level glo
What we do with our freedomThe examples of the excruciating etiquette of the aristocratic courts, the marriage market Rhimes dramatised, the civil ass
Overthinking is always pointing at a deeper unmet need — the topic, as urgent as it feels, is just the form the need assumes when it can’t be felt. U
One of my favorite quotes in psychoanalysis, from Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok: "What haunts are not the dead, but the gaps left within us by the s
Neverrr neverrrr look desperate in life. Remain calm during hard times. Understand it’s just your time to suffer like every great man before you.
“The strongest version of you is buried under the habits you're afraid to break.”
Articles about social media platforms and their effects on society.
I feel like there’s something so soulless about our culture—something deeply, deeply missing in people’s experience of life, a kind of superficiality.
“It is not easy to convince people that I am not dealing with ideas but with perceptions, not concepts but observations. It is easy to disseminate ide
Although still using the language of tools, in 1988 Illich explained, “I would like to get together a certain number of people to think about what too
Digital capitalism does not pose the same kind of threats as industrial capitalism, in part because it does not act on us through straightforward inst
shit you should read if you are building or care about how social networks are evolving
This is the part most debates about tech and democracy miss. The real question is whether the underlying architecture creates incentives that concentr
And you have to offer it sustainably. Sustainability isn’t a thing you think about after you’ve designed a product. Your product’s business model is a
A room is not just a data structure. The moment you draw a boundary around a social space and say “these people are in, these are the rules,” you have
For most communities to succeed long-term, they need to have a viable business plan. Community commerce is the exploration of how to create profitable, sustainable communities.
here are some posts about online communities that I find very good for one reason or another (Not a full list, no particular order, mostly from the r
Community is the most valuable currency of the new internet
If there's any kind of lesson in all this, it's mostly some advice I want to give myself. The lesson is simply: speak up. It's OK to slip into advocac
look at how the word “community” itself has been warped in recent years into a cynical marketing cliché to rival “storyteller” — annexed as the torche
to be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.
The most successful web3 social apps are going to look completely different than web2 social (rather than building "decentralized Twitter/FB/X") They
The Future of NFTs: A Visual Exploration into the REAL use cases
All social networking apps fall on a spectrum from love to fame.
