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We’d also like to see more innovation and support for various monetization mechanisms for communities; that could include charging to unlock premium channels, tipping creators of posts (similar to Reddit), the ability to donate or leave a contribution for live events, etc.

Facebook owns the social graph. Whether you’re a Boomer or GenXer using Facebook, a Millenial using Instagram & Messenger, or a Non-American using WhatsApp… the fact is, if you’re connecting with your everyday-life friends online, you’re relying on Facebook in some capacity.

The merging of personalisation and generation represents the ultimate optimisation for media production. Everybody satisfied, all of the time.

But such a simplistic optimisation overlooks the broader implications – those that differentiate entertainment from culture. They inspire a cascade of questions, such as how is human culture changed if we los

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The ability for anyone in a vast network of disconnected, distributed participants to leverage the work of others to create new applications didn’t just arise spontaneously — it required the cooperation of many people. Ethereum smart contract developers enabled composability over time by converging on community standards that describe how certain t... See more

That's one part of what I'm aiming at with soul-making productivity. I want a way of stoking the fire, and not just that — a way of devoting myself to the fire, of courting it and nurturing it, and of teaching it how to work with me, how to help along this project we're engaged in together, this effort to take an idea from the ether and sculpt some... See more

When you find a nascent but fast-growing space, dive in. Bezos had a high-paying job at quantitative hedge fund DE Shaw, but when he saw how fast internet usage was growing, he gave it up to start from scratch. It was a good bet.

👋: ANN: I've been always fascinated by the origin stories of companies around us today. I'm kicking off a series of videos called "Origin Stories". For the first, I sat down with @vladtenev to talk about the origin of @RobinhoodApp Video -> https://youtube.com/watch?v=i-sSdwV3bEo... See more