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The fewer the manufacturing workers and engineers, the more removed everyone is from the particulars of industrial processes, and the more remote that knowledge becomes in each successive generation. We become think tankers and app designers and restaurant hosts, while the details of the industrial world become further and loftier abstractions. How... See more

“More” Is not Necessarily a Market Advantage

Here is a problem we  do not  currently have: There aren’t enough books getting published.

In fact, there’s far more books being published than there are people to buy and read them. Mr. 97 Books in 9 Months is working under the theory that more hooks in the water makes for the better chance at getting a

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Creators should be in the business of eliciting and manufacturing subculture.

Of course, software can only take you so far. I still don’t write down most of the thoughts that I have, even on subjects I have written multiple columns about. Nor do I try to disstill these thoughts into sharp-edged little maxims the way Matuschak does in his own note-taking practice. He says he spends two hours a day refining notes he has... See more

web3 is a somewhat ambiguous term, which makes it difficult to rigorously evaluate what the ambitions for web3 should be, but the general thesis seems to be that web1 was decentralized, web2 centralized everything into platforms, and that web3 will decentralize everything again. web3 should give us the richness of web2, but decentralized.

Atlassian: 98% 12-month customer retention (source)