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

Create Confusion: Fund research showing the harmful ingredients are healthy, or at least not provably harmful.

Now, the question is whether Instagram should replace their default view with a “full screen video experience” that would basically complete their transition into a wholesale TikTok clone.

“An earlier generation would find it astonishing that, without payment or even much outcry, our networks of family, friends, and associates have been recruited via social media to help sell us things. Now, however, most of us carry devices on our bodies that constantly find ways to commercialize the smallest particles of our time and attention”

Traditional settings for company towns were for the most part where extractive industries existed– coal, metal mines, lumber — and had established a monopoly franchise. Dam sites and war-industry camps founded other company towns. 

My second prescription for misery is to learn everything you possibly can from your own personal experience, minimizing what you learn vicariously from the good and bad experience of others, living and dead. This prescription is a sure-shot producer of misery and second-rate achievement.

What does Twitter think it is, and what is Twitter?

Adding verification information to Twitter’s social graph makes it even more powerful, too. It might become the largest database of ID verified users in the world, something that third-party developers would love to tap into (with the personally identifying information hidden, of course).