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Meta wants as many creators and developers building Metaverse products as possible, because more products mean more advertising opportunities and potentially small marketplace fees, so it can keep fees very low to encourage creation.
Packy McCormick • Minimally Extractive Meta
I found that things got a lot easier when I no longer expected to win….
You understand that, you abandon your masterpiece, and you sink into the real masterpiece…
Austin Kleon • Leonard Cohen on perfectionism - Austin Kleon
Fantastic startup advice from Marc Andreessen 15 years ago. https://t.co/slnUkIGB5j
The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present
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Data is transparent. That also means it’s public. While accounts are pseudonymous, users may take actions that accidentally leak their identities when they don’t intend to. Adding to the challenge, transactions are irreversible, which puts even more burden on the user to not make mistakes. In the Web3 world, users can’t call their credit card compa... See more
Reed McGinley-Stempel • Web3 and the future of data portability: Rethinking user experiences and incentives on the internet - Help Net Security
At the high end, digital art sold for millions doesn’t really need an NFT, just as Bowie didn’t need crypto to securitize his royalties in 1997. Christie’s could have just as easily sold an embossed paper certificate, and entered the buyer’s name in a leather bound book securely held at Christie’s headquarters. But that sort of infrastructure isn’t... See more
Scott Galloway • Scarcity Cred | No Mercy / No Malice
Can large language models take the place of traditional search engines? For us to have confidence in them, we would need to know that they haven’t been fed propaganda and conspiracy theories—we’d need to know that the jpeg is capturing the right sections of the Web. But, even if a large language model includes only the information we want
... See moreTed Chiang • ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web
This effort can be divided into two main fronts: Decentralized Utility and Decentralized Ownership.
Dror Poleg • Crypto and the Conservation of Centralization
“What I need, what I am trying to build, is — I coin this phrase by analogy to a memory palace — an attention cottage . ... When I sit down in a chair with a book in my lap, a notebook at my side, and no screens within reach or sight, I am dwelling in my attention cottage.
The great artists and thinkers cultivate a systolic/diastolic rhythm, tension... See more
Alan Jacobs • 1, #86 - How to survive in a world of distraction
how do we survive in a world of distraction?
Ask any software developer—the web as it exists today would be impossible without open source. If I had to point to a single cause of the tech boom from 2010’s to today, it would be either open source or cheap cloud computing. Frankly it’s a tie.