Lillian Sheng
@lillian
Lillian Sheng
We often hear how celebrities worked so hard before their big break, but countless people work hard in entertainment or livestreaming, and only a minority achieved success. It’s therefore difficult to know how much of a livestreamer’s or a star’s rise is attributable to the individual’s hard work and how much is attributable to other factors.
Lillian Li • Internet and the murmurs of post-modernity in China
Alex Zhang: I hope that FWB can experiment with different governance, governing models. Any internet state you’re building requires governance as a consensus agreed-upon form of organizing, with rules and regulations and accountability. Daniel Keller had a funny tweet where he was like, five friends are deciding to split the check at dinner — is... See more
Zora • Worldbuilding with FWB – ZORA ZINE
- How will you use your gifts? What choices will you make?
- Will inertia be your guide, or will you follow your passions?
- Will you follow dogma, or will you be original?
- Will you choose a life of ease, or a life of service and adventure?
- Will you wilt under criticism, or will you follow your convictions?
- Will you bluff it out when you’re wrong, or will you
Jeff Bezos • "What Matters More Than Your Talents"
Amygdala - Like all brain regions, the amygdala does many things, but you’ll usually hear it associated with fear and negative emotion. When it comes to goal pursuit, the amygdala appears to act as an emotional calculator—predicting how rewarding or unpleasant the outcome of different goals and tasks might be.
every.to • The Neuroscience of Achieving Your Goals
“What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.” — William Ralph Inge
Austin Kleon • Steal Like An Artist - a book by Austin Kleon
3. Control experienceGetting feedback and developing the right product experience is a commonly cited reason why a certain product has gated access. This is especially true for consumer products where losing 75% of the initial sign-ups is considered a good retaining product.
Ali Abouelatta • 🕖Waitlists
How is GoPuff pushing the category forward?
Alexandre Dewez • 🌶 An Update on Grocery Quick Commerce
The emphasis of decentralized power across music DAOs leans towards higher-level decisions around treasury allocation and artist support but rarely touches creative choices.
The state of music DAOs - Water & Music
Assessing Value - When your brain is assessing value it is calculating the rewards and punishments associated with taking or avoiding a specific course of action and ultimately decides which actions are worth pursuing.