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PEOPLE IN SYSTEMS DO NOT DO WHAT THE SYSTEM SAYS THEY ARE DOING. University professors chase grants, not student enlightenment. VCs nurture personal b

What the humans like is responsiveness - by Sasha Chapin What the humans like is responsiveness

We all know we’re overstimulated and want to stop, but we can’t. We use app blockers, throw our phones away, and build rigid routines. But none of it

humans don’t have fixed identities. we’re constantly testing. trying different versions of ourselves. seeing what gets rewarded. adjusting based on fe

I feel like there’s something so soulless about our culture—something deeply, deeply missing in people’s experience of life, a kind of superficiality.

After 18 days of diving deep into crypto, I didn't come out of it a decentralization maxi. There's space for both types of software, community, and ut

The New Internet failed to provide a clear enough plot, a straightforward enough of a product, nor legible enough of a movement to fend off the effect

A trend is a fad whose demand is not satisfied. A fad is a trend whose demand is satisfied too quickly. The lesson? If you experience success, do not

This is silly simplified but people who work in “Brand” are typically valued for their taste and ability to forecast and predict trends. They see the

One of the surprising and counter-cultural truths about modern-day marketing, which I suspect drives many efficiency-minded people practically insane,

New Media is opinionated about the internet’s infinite scale. It chooses to reject or play with the internet’s scale, opting to be handmade, limited q

The ‘tetrad’ or ‘laws of media:’ enhances: awareness of inclusive, structural process obsolesces: dominance of logical method reverses into: techno

The ‘laws of media’ can’t tell you everything about any medium, but it does give us something remarkable: predictability. We know that anything we can

What gets clicks becomes what gets made. The edges get sanded down. Originality gives way to imitation. Junk food wins, so everyone starts cooking cra

It takes yesterday’s trends, remixes them with today’s keywords, and spits out tomorrow’s mediocrity. It’s not thinking. It’s rehashing. Recursively,

We must choose the “longest way round” because meaning is neither fast nor viral nor optimized.It’s made. Slowly. Painfully. Honestly.By humans.

But what felt new was the speed and violence with which language now manifests markets. I’d sit in meetings as a single phrase “AI-native vertical Saa

Applying detergents (soaps) to our skin and hair every day disrupts a sort of balance between skin oils and the bacteria that live on our skin. When y

evolutionarily, why would we be so disgusting that we need constant cleaning? And constant moisturizing and/or de-oiling? If we do more to allow our o

12,167 hours of washing our bodies. That’s how much life you use, if you spend 20 minutes per day washing and moisturizing your skin and hair (and you

On the one hand, Octavia Butler has this to say: “The only lasting truth is Change.” On the other hand, Bill Bernbach would counter as such: “A com

pretty clear that collecting cultural ephemera is a new consumer behavior that’s going to become a core part of life on the internet

Something I’ve noticed, however, is that exclusively using TikTok doesn’t mean I’m only exposed to TikTok-specific trends and culture. In fact, many o

Introducing a Rocks, Sand, and Water Framework for AttentionWe always talk about consumers’ attention as being finite, but how is it divided?I imagine

“There’s no way to make these systems without human labor at the level of informing the ground truth of the data — reinforcement learning with human f

Through extensive experimentation across diverse puzzles, we show that frontier LRMs face a complete accuracy collapse beyond certain complexities. Mo

So when people opt to devote their energy to tracking the latest TikTok star or scrolling content instead of nurturing interpersonal relationships, th

Social media stopped being primarily about connecting socially a long time ago. People still use a range of technologies to connect to friends and bui

Taste for Privacy: How Context, Identity, and Lived-Experience Shape Information Sharing Preferences

The social-platform layer offers the feeling of encounter with the friction surgically removed. As one analysis of Gen Z’s parasocial turn put it, onl

1/ The good news: the METAVERSE is exciting but NOT for the reasons most people are talking about. The bad news: odds are the 'Metaverse' will be us

Whether it is through a VR headset, the manipulation of projectors, or clever set design, immersion fulfills our desire for escapism, instantly transp

Impossible Foods CEO Patrick Brown on a new kind of meat

Plant Based Meats Do More to Address Climate Change Than Green Buildings or Zero-Emission Cars

We all benefit from a future imprinted by curious Gen Z.

Humanity needs Gen Z’s ideas and dreams to shape the future, which means giving them a seat at the table

Gen Z’s Curiosity Fingerprint for the Future

What am I supposed to do? Keep standards high and fail them all? That’s not an option for untenured faculty who would like to keep their jobs. I’m a t

The more upset I became, the more I felt that my sensitivity towards the paintings was the same sensitivity I held when I was the subject of the photo

To spot weird signals, you need to go down rabbit holes. Follow your intuition. And remember, pursuing rabbit holes is not always an act of procrastin

Gen AI  for music has captured ~$300M in funding so far this year across several high-profile deals, the majority of which either focus on  rights man

Almost anyone can tell you the cost of living has increased between the onset of the pandemic and today. Implying anything else is, as my younger coll

Startups and Macro Risk

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Neuroplastic healing must be sequenced in the right order for maximal effect Imagine running a very large voltage of energy through old tattered wires

A new therapy for Ukraine’s scarred soldiers: ketamine from TheEconomist https://www.economist.com/europe/2024/01/15/a-new-therapy-for-ukraines-scarre

Led by public figures like Michael Pollan, Tim Ferriss, and even Joe Rogan, and leading institutions like Johns Hopkins, NYU, Berkeley, and Imperial C

The subscription model means content providers are paid regularly no matter the quality and quantity of the product. Makes sense – being paid on a reg

What tradition or practice from another culture or era do you think we should widely adopt?I wish patronage were widely adopted as an explicit social

Media and Machines.

Hyperconnected 'Kakao Kingdom' - "Everything is hyperconnected on KakaoTalk. It connects people, as well as numerous services affiliated from taxi-ha

ARKit persists anchors and mapping data based on your location. Practically speaking, this means that if you use an app to anchor some paintings to yo

Host: And of course, the luxury sector spans over so many different products. But what do you think the definition of luxury is?Bernard Arnault: First

to be successful, you have to have the combination between modernity and timelessness.

How Hermès Sells "Time"

Healthcare ecosystem mapping: A first step to shape your market

healthcare is having its top deck of the titanic moment what happens in the next year will define the next century of american healthcare, and basica

What are WeChat Mini-Programs? A Simple Introduction

Similarly, I wonder whether the creator economy, as it matures, will resemble less of its original promise (a way for people to do the things they lov

Shein: The TikTok of Ecommerce

If there's any kind of lesson in all this, it's mostly some advice I want to give myself. The lesson is simply: speak up. It's OK to slip into advocac

look at how the word “community” itself has been warped in recent years into a cynical marketing cliché to rival “storyteller” — annexed as the torche

to be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.

What are WeChat Mini-Programs? A Simple Introduction

Gen Z and the End of Predictable Progress - by kyla scanlon

The game has shifted, and the winning strategy with it. It’s no longer about understanding specialized details; it’s about grasping the high-level glo

What we do with our freedomThe examples of the excruciating etiquette of the aristocratic courts, the marriage market Rhimes dramatised, the civil ass

Razorfish Study Finds 52% of Gen Z Gamers Feel More Like Themselves in the Metaverse than in Real Life

Bret Victor, beast of burden

By yielding a generational wealth creation opportunity that was a strange hybrid of a lottery jackpot and self-made fortune, crypto created an ideolog

For example, it was 30 years after the invention of film that someone first tried telling stories with it — before that, film was mainly used as a dem

Just a moment...

How do you explain the web to people who have never used it? You make it as simple and as accessible as possible.

Digital Object ApplicationsFor the first time in human history, blockchains empower any digital object to enjoy the properties of verifiable scarcity,

We can always opt out of this arrangement, of course, and live happily in meatspace, but that is precisely the point: Offline we exist by default; onl

We are currently living in a time when the lines between fantasy and reality are blurring and virtual worlds are creating room for new rules of self-e

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People need to be more thoughtful building products on top of LLMs. The fact that they generate text is not the point.

How livestream shopping marketplaces are trying to become mainstream

DeFi, dApps and DAOs: The Key Differences

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If alpha is the ability to earn return without taking fully commensurate risk, investors possessing it can do so by either reducing risk while giving

Rob and I had to face the truth: Matter is a great product—3x App of the Day, with many thousands of passionate users—but it isn’t the next Duolingo.

When the institutions are optimized to fund the legible thing and the individuals are optimized to build the legible thing, the identity of the founde

Decentralized investor communities gain traction in biotech

The Only Crypto Story You Need, by Matt Levine

Design For Awareness | Cap_able Design

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We live in a world where movies aren’t considered art, but intellectual property. They’re “content,” little chunks of stuff that can be licensed, exte

I asked 30 Shopify store owners making $2,000,000+ "What’s one Shopify App you can't live without?" Here are the 10 apps every Shopify store must k

We were going to create a brand to serve people, not advertise to them.

To make a game more fun, don’t make it easier, make it harder!

DeFi: 3 Ways Decentralized Finance Will Transform Real Estate

Major music rights holders and tech companies are now expected to generate profits for a dizzying array of stakeholders sitting outside of industry bo

The major labels are finally facing a crucial reality: Independent music's market share keeps climbing, and controlling the infras

Hellman & Friedman's majority stake in Global Music Rights marks a watershed moment — private equity firms now control three major PROs (alo

Gen AI  for music has captured ~$300M in funding so far this year across several high-profile deals, the majority of which either focus on  rights man

People who don’t take themselves too seriously. They have to be able to laugh at themselves to succeed. What to look for: This is usually very easy to

The #1 thing I look for when hiring people is FIO. "Figure It Out" You can get pretty damn far just by being: - Resourceful - Reliable - Results or

@mckaywrigley I have a bunch of questions I ask. What would you build for yourself? What did previous companies you've worked for need? What are you a

Aggressive growth projects often lead to UX cruft, slowly degrading long-term user engagement and retention. Yes, you can move short-term metrics by t

Founder Mode

ubiquitous connectivity and our media environments naturally lend themselves toward an influencer-and-fandom dynamic. If the system is built to inspir

In the new cultural economy, the culture is the product. It is composed of practices, ideas, and discourses. Products are auxiliary, supportive, but n

…and look. I think that it is perfectly reasonable for people to be normal music fans and to have a normal relationship to music. But…if you want to g