Making the internet safe for individuals again, in my view, is the most compelling use case for Bitcoin and every other cryptographic method or technology. Companies that build politics-free solutions will be the future of the internet. Not because such products have the right opinions about their users, but because they have no opinions at all.
When people own their own content, including its data and metadata, they own its distribution as well. They become the new intermediaries. People become the new platforms.
“Tesla should really be measured by how many years we accelerate the advent of sustainable energy. It will happen, with or without Tesla, but the fundamental good is by how many years do we accelerate it.”
Find the lowest person on the org chart who might have all four attributes of the end user, business owner, technology owner, and budget owner. Sacks describes this as the “lowest atomic unit in the enterprise”. Then, sell to that person.
Burniske warns, "Markets are a powerful technology that is meant to serve society's virtues, but markets are dangerous as a virtue system in-and-of themselves. If we continue to allow markets to dictate our virtues, we will perpetuate a society that the majority now whisper is selfish, divisive, imbalanced - threatening, even." With everything in o... See more
I have a suspicion that most adults (75%+) could pick any skill—excluding sports—and work their way into the top 10% in the world simply by working exclusively on it every day for two years.
But almost nobody displays that degree of focus, so we will never know.