Lillian Sheng

Graphic design, the discipline of aesthetic production, is facing a crisis as it reconciles with catastrophic effects of network technology on its profitability. Even prolific designers who produce work with a characteristic original aesthetic are quickly copied. As their work is pillaged and reproduced downstream (leftstream), it becomes... See more

1. moment-based experiences

The Paradox in Newsletters Here’s another more recent example. You’ve likely heard of the amazing newsletter product, Substack. It’s a platform that enables creators to build, host, and scale their own newsletter businesses. The smart thing about Substack is that it uses an open standard — in this case, SMTP, the standard that powers email — to... See more

The ownership economy is big and growing DAOs, decentralized autonomous organizations, are online communities owned and governed by their members. They can be thought of as the organizational building blocks that make up web3’s economic, social, and cultural landscape.

Addictive. Twitter behaves like a professional network sometimes, but it’s also where many of the world’s most powerful people go when they’re feeling curious, feisty, inspired, or just bored.

Creator coins are a new type of asset class that is tied to the reputation of an individual, rather than to a company or commodity. They are truly the first tool we have as a society to trade "social clout" as an asset. If people understand this, then the value of someone's coin should be correlated to that person's standing in society.

2. Acquisition: cooperative games with inherent social interactions are the perfect vehicle for getting new users. Getting that one avid super-promoter user who can bring on an entire friend group is ideal and was the rock virality fuel that propelled Pinduoduo to growth at its inception.Games often have in-build ceilings several levels in where... See more

When you bathe people in a way of thinking you can get them to change.

By distinguishing between our inner experience and our outer behavior, we begin to open up the possibility of moving toward what matters, even when difficult experiences arise.