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In all of these cases, the “drop” is valuable because it is artificially scarce; fewer people would want it if everyone could have it.

For remote workers:

Today, design for emergence—made profitable by SaaS—supports an enormous market of left-behind long-tail users.

And let’s see what happens over the next decade as Instagram builds out its commerce operation. Perhaps we’ll all be stores someday. (Whatever that means.)

Outside of crypto there are other experiments that have been run. Like Mike Merrill, this guy who literally securitized himself so shareholders can vote on life decisions that he makes. Also Spencer Dinwiddie (a star player on the Brooklyn Nets), who is issuing a bond based on his future NBA earnings and sponsorships, kind of similar to [David] Bow... See more

When Discord sent out a 23 question survey to its community, they discovered that over 30% of Discord’s users weren’t using the product primarily for gaming. They were hosting book clubs, friends’ group chats, fan communities, and even companies. Discord had become the internet’s “third place.”

Aggregators can leverage their demand ownership, data advantage, and superior customer experiences to capture more of the profits in their value chain.

What are some of those fundamental assumptions that would need to be reimagined or extended to accommodate artificial intelligence?

Here are three. First, death: Humans tend to be either dead or alive. Borderline cases exist but are relatively rare. But digital minds could easily be paused, and later restarted.

Second, individuality. While even ide

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