Lillian Sheng

The problem with the current arrangement is not that tech giants make money. The problem is that the only way for them to make money is through advertising that relies on the collection of highly-personalized data, tied to personal accounts that identify us by our email or phone number

But being productive and being organized are not always the same thing. The trap with organizing is that it can sometimes be an excuse not to ship things.

Giving TweeterDAO a board seat is a step short of issuing a token and fully decentralizing. It’s a step short of the direct democracy he thinks humans should use to govern Mars. But it’s a big step in the right direction from a board made up of people with practically no ownership and famously little usage of the product.

What I do, instead of focusing on order or arc, is I try to bathe people from all different directions in a way of thinking.

To summarize: defusion is about seeing thoughts as real, but not necessarily true, and about choosing to give weight to the thoughts that help us move toward the lives we want to live.

Benefits of standardization

It’s important to remember that customers like using products based on standards because doing so offers them choice and data portability. If a standards-based product happens to break through market fragmentation, it’s important to maintain the benefits users got from the standard in the first place, otherwise you risk alienating your users and lo... See more

We call this a double bind. It’s often caused by a misalignment — where what’s good for a critical value chain participant, like a distribution channel, isn’t good for customers. 

Another key tactic that helped drive growth was migrating liquidity for existing collections. “We found that we couldn’t migrate liquidity for existing collections that were already on other marketplaces,” Zhuoxun said. They also recognized that many top existing collections wanted their own white-labeled marketplace, so they offered to build them ... See more