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“History as usually written is quite different from history as usually lived. The historian records the exceptional because it is interesting.” – Will Durant

Telegram is the fastest-growing app in the world. At least, by some measures. A 2021 report suggested that no major app grew monthly active users more than the messaging service. It now boasts around 600 million users.

With a decrease in discretionary spending and a shift away from non-essential goods, there’s been a redefinition of luxury.

I know that growth can be imperceptible and quiet. I’ve accepted that. Eventually progress loses its shine of exponential improvement simply because as each year goes by, each year becomes a smaller fraction of life in its entirety. There’s nothing to feel too bad about. Maybe the changes are incremental, but important. Maybe the emotions are softe

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When starting for yourself, it’s necessary to have a network of people willing to support you and do business with you

On YouTube there is no editor. You can't create content, you upload it. They are a default CDN for video content, so not sure if it makes sense or they could ship something superior to other editors.

Perhaps surprisingly, virtually all of decentralized finance, aka DeFi, consists of finite state applications. As long as you can store a handful of account balances, you can start to build arbitrarily-complex tools for people to trade, borrow, lend, etc... and you'll never have to store more than the ending balances in the long-term. This is becau... See more