While most savvy founders are right to avoid “build it and they’ll come” thinking, the correct response is almost never “if it worked in Web 2, it will work in Web 3”. Copying mainstream consumer products may seem like a safe bet as the markets have been validated, but skeumorphism is not a go-to-market strategy.
Owning payments allows you to build a winning product. Your customers have different needs, pain points, and goals relating to the flow of money, such as tip pooling for restaurant staff (Toast), paying down business loans with daily card sales (Square), tying payments to rewards (Starbucks), streamlining collections (DocuSign), automating accounti... See more
Remarkably very little overlap between the influencers talking about personal knowledge management and people that have written a great book or won an Emmy or an Oscar or actually done anything that incredible with their knowledge management systems.
The goal is not to collect more information. The goal is to think and live better
For the past year or more, I haven’t been able to stop thinking about how the primary challenge we face, as people living in a modern western society, is not surviving in a resource scarce environment, but is instead managing to not gorge ourselves to death, literally/physically or figuratively/spiritually.