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Crypto/blockchain is a fundamental innovation that addresses an important problems facing us in the world today: too much power concentrated in the hands of a few corporations and governments.
Albert Wenger • Climate and Crypto
Fixing retail with land value capture
worksinprogress.news
Before other auto promoters, Charles Hayes saw that industry leaders had to reshape the traffic safety debate. As president of the Chicago Motor Club, Hayes warned his friends that bad publicity over traffic casualties could soon lead to “legislation that will hedge the operation of automobiles with almost unbearable restrictions.” The solution was... See more
Peter Norton • When Cities Treated Cars as Dangerous Intruders
You are not a commercial for yourself
blackbirdspyplane.com
The most satisfying and nourishing communities, after all, are those where people aren’t in competition, trying to sell each other things, or united around nothing beyond a common consumer desire.
Ted Gioia on AI's Threat To Music
youtu.beabout culture cycles
about the danger of caring more about the past rather than the future [are you holding rights? or are you creating what’s next?]
the battle between macro-culture and micro-culture — and while the former is declining, the latter might thrive
“you can’t reduce things to formula”
the difference between art and entertainment
we need mind-expanding experiences
there is a real danger in going full-passive consumption; which is bad for the culture
“i spend more time reading than i do writing” => “any process you have in the world, your output depends on your input”
fluid intelligence versus crystallized intelligence
now being similar to 1800’s: back then, power went from the industrialists to the creative people
you get luckier if you force yourself out of your comfort zone
what Internet allowed is: direct contact with your audience, your people
Doing all of this—curating an exceptional milieu, providing dedicated tutoring and opportunities for apprenticeship—is hard work. You could pull it off if you put your mind to it, I trust. Though, like everything pursued to excellence, it would demand serious sacrifices. Particularly of time. It is ok not to want that.
A lot of it does not require
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