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exploring the bounds of social platforms’ responsibility to keep the spaces safe
This library contains more than 2,000 exhibits, internal communications, research documents, and other materials cited in social media harm lawsuits a
Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
shit you should read if you are building or care about how social networks are evolving
Of course technology and the people who use it are always in an emerging dialectic together, shaping and being shaped, but I think today's discontent
Chat is the foundation of civilization. I believe this with all of the seriousness of my being. This is the other realization that took me out of acad
Much has already been written about parasocial relationships, and I am of the mind that they are a logical outcome of the death of God plus late capit
Exploring ways to discuss, debate, dialogue, deliberate, and generally understand and engage with different perspectives
If left unmanaged, conflicts naturally tend to escalate in both scale and scope. AI should help us stay towards the lower left of this graph. But tha
Can AI Mediation Help Bridge Political Divides?
Spoken disagreement is more constructive than written ... - Nature
good stuff from around the internet on raising good kids, building a family, etc.
Children who feel valued in this way, and who believe that what they do adds value, generally come to understand that they matter. And a sense of matt
For what it’s worth, in raising our own kids we created an effective, balanced, common-sense approach based not on rules but on three principles. Trea
When you wait, you lose momentum. And momentum is incredibly powerful because when you’re inspired, you act—and you do it with enthusiasm.
The quest for perfection is paralyzing. I’ve watched engineers spend weeks debating the ideal architecture for something they’ve never built. The perf
The human eye is one of the most sophisticated optical instruments in existence. It automatically adjusts focus, adapts to light levels from pitch dar
Many of the most meaningful things in life look inefficient when viewed through the wrong lens. But that doesn't make them wasteful. It makes them hum
“We would never rely [solely] on the AI-generated summaries,” said Seward. “Reporters are going back and listening to the real [podcasts] but using th
As intelligence becomes abundant, the most important question will be how we direct it. Some argue that superintelligence itself, or a small set of ex
Product strategy is the process of defining what you want to achieve and how you plan to get there.
Not to belabor the point, but people will pay you because doing so is an easier way to solve their pain than anything they might be able to do themsel
Vertically integrated products can move faster initially because they own the entire workflow and offer users the proverbial easy button to get starte
The primitive is the product — Amplify Partners
And once you get the primitive right, it becomes the building block that everyone else standardizes around.
And you have to offer it sustainably. Sustainability isn’t a thing you think about after you’ve designed a product. Your product’s business model is a
The first thing that strikes you when you genuinely listen to communities talk about journalism is that the problem isn’t that they have too little in
Vertically integrated products can move faster initially because they own the entire workflow and offer users the proverbial easy button to get starte
inspiration for pitching ideas, projects, and businesses
It’s our inability to let go of our agenda to get people to buy that turns people off and has marketing and sales feel gross. Sales pressure is predom

How to design a better pitch deck : YC Startup Library | Y Combinator
With Monitor Local, The Maine Monitor expands to civic news — written by local residents — for rural counties
We rely on good journalism to understand the world around us, but those newsrooms need engagement, subscriptions, and membership to survive. AI interm
The biggest exceptions are local news startups, which are building trust, evolving business models for journalism, and building far more representativ
The first thing that strikes you when you genuinely listen to communities talk about journalism is that the problem isn’t that they have too little in
Search engines built an ecosystem that benefited publishers and the platforms,but publishers see those same platforms as continually taking more value
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We rely on good journalism to understand the world around us, but those newsrooms need engagement, subscriptions, and membership to survive. AI interm
exploring a future of digital social spaces / networks where users pay
How ELLE France Boosted Subscriptions by Tailoring Paywalls to Reader Context
Social media differs from note-taking apps. Users provide content and interaction for free. "Why should I pay when I'm the one creating value?" Fair q
Not to belabor the point, but people will pay you because doing so is an easier way to solve their pain than anything they might be able to do themsel
But I don’t think platform companies should—or can—act as the governance layer of our online lives. In this, I share tech journalist and Bluesky board
Decentralized networks are harder to infiltrate and harder to destroy. This movement is not leaderless, but leaderful, and there are no few specific p
The protocol world has been trying to solve the problem of how to leave, and the next step is working on how we can stay together.
Danny O’Brien, a Senior Fellow at the Filecoin Foundation, has argued that decentralization itself should never be the “terminal value” we pursue—it’s
