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Originally, creators didn’t exist. They weren’t a thing. So bringing them together with their audience — even if they didn’t own that audience — was amazing since it provided a degree of ads-based monetization.
Andrew Chen • What today’s social apps can learn from Web 2.0, the social network revolution from 15 years ago at andrewchen
This hardening will reveal the root problem. Despite many people contributing to the tools and services that now dominate our lives, most people have no stake in them. To cite just one example, the four million people who drive for Uber probably own less of the company combined than a single dentist in New Jersey with Vanguard in their portfolio.
Yancey Strickler • The Ownership Crisis
Chart of the Day:
@Apple’s advertising business has more than tripled its market share in the six months after it introduced privacy changes to iPhones that obstructed rivals, including @Facebook and @Google, from targeting ads at consumers.
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I believe open-source is a fundamental human right. As technology takes up more and more of our lives, it’s just as important as freedom of speech, freedom of religion, or any other freedom. It’s important to have the freedom to see how our software works and to modify it.
Matt Mullenweg • How to buy a social network, with Tumblr CEO Matt Mullenweg
He said that even though we desire to be loved by others, at the end of the day, we experience happiness only when we are successful according to our inner scorecard.
Guatam Baid • Joys Of Compounding: The Passionate Pursuit of Lifelong Learning
a supercharged "ideaverse" to support and power all of your thinking efforts.
The thing people miss is that there are bad things that become bigger problems when you try to eliminate them. I think the most successful people recognize when a certain amount of acceptance beats purity.
Morgan Housel • Page Not Found – Collab Fund
“It’s the citizen’s duty to be informed” was valuable when information was scarce but is now dangerous with limitless information.
Many of us feel “morally obliged” to stay plugged in – even mindlessly scrolling makes us feel like we’ve fulfilled the obligation
Krista Tippett • Oliver Burkeman – Time Management for Mortals
Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary.
-Muhammad Ali