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even if daos *can* be used for coops/participatory democracy/etc, nothing about the tech *guarantees* this — it's dangerous to conflate technological and sociopolitical progress & we should remember to tell the difference

To me, this idea of opposing truths so aptly represents the current state of Web3. On one hand, I feel completely convinced that Web3 will fundamentally reshape many aspects of our world. On the other hand, I feel that using Web3 is simply way harder than it needs to be.

Competition is heating up. Right now, MetaMask is king. There are plenty of rivals gunning for the throne, though. Coinbase offers a wallet, and Block (fka Square) is likely to follow suit. Insurgents like Rainbow, Phantom, and Argent are not to be underestimated.

In the past two months during the COVID-19 situation, signups for the Equal Parts text-based cooking coaching surged a whopping 400% as people complied with shelter-in-place laws and spent more time cooking at home (some for the first time.)

A friend of mine recently felt dizzy and went to a US urgent care facility for blood tests. They were inconclusive and so he was sent to the nearby emergency room, which proceeded to do the same blood tests over again, because they were not able to access the urgent care facility's test results in their computer system. This was just plain wasted w... See more

I define Content Density as the entertainment value of a piece of content divided by its length — how many oohs, ahhs, huhs, or hahas per second.

At present, we seem to be suffering from a widespread failure of literary imagination. We have become worse at imagining the experiences of other people, less inclined to credit these experiences as being as valid and real as our own. Why is this? In part, I think, because of the methods by, and pace at which, we acquire our stories. After all, eve... See more

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