When he was 11, Kobe Bryant played a full 25-game basketball season without scoring a single point.
He then took a simple mathematical approach to becoming one of the all-time greats:
The most important shift in restaurants in the past decade has been the rise of online ordering and delivery. UberEats, Postmates, Doordash, and a handful of other apps have been knife-fighting (in extremely uneconomical ways) for the privilege of becoming food delivery aggregators. Own enough customer demand, the thinking goes, and not only will r... See more
File over app
File over app is a philosophy: if you want to create digital artifacts that last, they must be files you can control, in formats that are easy to retrieve and read. Use tools that give you this freedom.
File over app is an appeal to tool makers: accept that all software is ephemeral, and give people ownership over their data.
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food for thought. i largely agree with this and think link rot is a big problem on the Internet. we will need to solve for this on Sublime, by creating a permanent archives of saved pages, or integrating with Wayback Machine... but I also think the vast majority of people care about what you can do for them today, not about the ideology of the founders - which is why so many of the decentralized social networks or privacy focused whatever haven't taken off - the value of being file vs. app first is seen in the future, not today
Why should peer-review happen amongst a small group of people when it can happen in the public eye? People can give comments, other people can give comments about those comments, etc. Ideas can get published faster, iterated on quicker, and become more of a group commentary vs. 6 month waits.
Smart contracts go beyond simply allowing for instant and verifiable transactions for various applications though — they can also be programmed to interact with each other. In other words, they make crypto programs composable, like building blocks.