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“Marc Andreessen was the guy that got me interested in ideas. Junior year in college, I was following Marc Andreessen on Twitter, and I remember thinking, I could either go to class, or I could read Marc Andreessen’s thoughts in my pocket.” – David Perell

Now the missing piece in all this is the user interface around reputation. In the traditional financial world, we have credit scores. In social media, we have follower counts and engagement metrics (likes, retweets). In crypto, there hasn’t been a tool or platform that has been able to look at everyone’s wallet history, make sense of it, and presen... See more

When you’re anxious, there is no quicker relief than checking things. Checking your Substack subscriber stats, refreshing your inbox and order confirmations.Scott Belsky coined the term insecurity work to describe work that does not move the ball forward, but is quick enough that you can do it multiple times a day without realizing.  Unlike in... See more

Good enough will continue to get better. Classic low-end disruption.

Being able to play video games on the go on your phone has driven enormous growth for the video game industry

If commerce is a transaction between buyer and seller, the face of the seller is evolving with new tools for discovery and purchase that allow for a personal relationship between creator and customer. Beyond a corporation or mass retailer, the seller is now frequently a person or small business. We are seeing a new long-tail retailer learning how t... See more

5. Debt rose tremendously. But so did incomes, so the impact wasn’t a big deal.