Lillian Sheng

Mapping a future for—and with—the Magic Eden community Another issue that looms large is Magic Eden’s current platform dependency on the Solana network. During Solana’s recent outage in June—the fifth time the network has gone down in 2022—the network stopped producing blocks for roughly four and half hours. With just 1,000-some validators compared... See more

The process has two significant competitive advantages. The first is that it significantly reduces the cost of incubating a new livestreamer relative to the MCN production model. The second is that it solves the conflicts of interests between livestreamers and MCN companies to a certain extent. The relationship between livestreamers and their... See more

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.

Example: RSS (Really Simple Syndication)SS has long been the backbone of podcasts, providing a powerful distribution mechanism that enables creators to publish their audio from a single endpoint and immediately syndicate their content to any consumption platform that wants to ingest it.

Being mobile-first means user is more attentive as an app is a more immersive experience than a browser.  There’s also a rough cut-off for the number of apps any sane person can have on their phone. - On average, Chinese users open 26 apps a month.- About 75% of their time is spent in the ecosystems of Tencent, Alibaba, Baidu, Bytedance and... See more

When everyone has similar stories, they all seem to collapse into one Big Tech Company. Across companies worth billions, with salaries many multiples of the national average, employees are facing the same isolation, burnout, and professional disenchantment that seems pervasive across the entire economy. One is unequivocally better than the... See more

Hypothesis 2: The "bad taste" hypothesisThe "bad taste" hypothesis says that conventional wisdom on what art and science were "great" is consistently screwed up and biased toward the past.

I sometimes feel that there’s just not a lot of literacy between the worlds of technology and art, but this doesn’t mean that there’s not a lot of crossover. I see how the art world can be incredibly intimidating, and if you’re someone who is working in a technological realm, maybe you might feel shut out. To someone feeling that way, I’d like to... See more