the worst part about the DTC experience is breaking down and discarding the cardboard boxes ... (especially when you live in a building with a low ‘recycling can : people’ ratio) (and not to mention the environmental impact) anyone working on solutions here?

Percent of revenue kept by creators: (from most to least) ✍️ Writers: 90% (Substack subs) 💋 Adult creators: 80% (OnlyFans) ▶️ YouTubers: 55% (YT ads) 🔴 Streamers: 50% (Twitch subs) 🎵 Musicians: 12% (after Spotify + label's cut) 🎨 Digital artists: Unknown

Steve Jobs gave one of his best interviews about building products back in 1995. Anyone who wants to craft amazing products should watch it. Here are 9 quotes from Jobs that really resonated with me:

At @SyndicateDAO, we believe strongly in community-driven investing and making it easier than ever before for communities to coordinate capital. Our Community Raise is an important first step on our journey to broaden participation in VC and startups. This is only the beginning.

We don't necessarily need to constantly interact with people “around” us on the web. The sensation of being in the quiet companionship of someone else, like reading next to them in a cafe, is what we're missing. The sense of ambiently sharing space – of being co-present – while engaged in other activities is a staple of shared public spaces that we

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The more I see communities moving to real-time platforms like Discord and Slack, the more I miss classic forum experiences. Long-lived threads with bumping, a long tail of search ranking for niche topics, locking/combining threads, etc. Real-time communities breed FOMO.