Lillian Sheng

The internet has enabled a truly distributed and multidirectional network, in which any node can be a content creator, broadcaster, and consumer. Any two nodes can have a 1:1 relationship; as a whole, the model can be described as many-to-many (M2M). However, despite the possibility of 1:1 relationships between producer-broadcasters and their audie... See more

• 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

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When Jesse evaluates investments for their ability to be dominant he actually inverts the question: he spends a lot of time assessing factors that could prevent a company from becoming dominant — what he calls “dominance friction.” And dominance friction comes from a pretty surprising place: any time a company’s interests are misaligned with i... See more

To broaden our view: we must look at image production (and cultural production in general) not just as a specific vocation, but as a novel consumer behavior. The popular Technology Adoption Life Cycle framework proposes that different psychographic consumer segments—early adopters, early majority, late majority, and laggard markets—can be penetrate... See more

4. The value of data and its relationships with CPGs

Rather than framing serving society as a sacrifice, this framework shows how acting toward a greater good is a key element to finding purpose. Ikigai changes the question from a binary about sacrifice, to a choice about how much weight to give the needs of your nation.

While America is fortunate to have plenty of citizens who feel called to jobs that align with our national interests, many citizens feel a tension between what we want to do and what our society needs.

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.