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Today’s cult of convenience fails to acknowledge that difficulty is a constitutive feature of human experience. Convenience is all destination and no journey. But climbing a mountain is different from taking the tram to the top, even if you end up at the same place. We are becoming people who care mainly or only about outcomes. We are at risk of
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Becoming Supernatural: How Common People Are Doing the Uncommon
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The most successful sub-categories we’ve observed are those that start as “side hustles” but can eventually evolve into lucrative careers. A great example of this is Substack, a platform that makes it easy to start an email newsletter subscription.
Bessemer Venture Partners • Roadmap: Enabling entrepreneurship in the creator economy
Ten years ago, the industry’s identity was largely defined by thousands of young millennials who wanted to “change the world,” and the handful of large technology companies attempting to attract that talent. Discussions of material abundance, of connecting humanity, and of every sci-fi moonshot on our path to Star Trekkian utopia were not only... See more
Goonpocalypse
Mic Solana on why SV lost the plot
My partner Jana Messerschmidt asked her panel how business models of vertical networks will different from utility networks like Facebook*. The panelists argued that the benefit of a vertical network is greater trust, and that trust creates the possibility of direct monetization. Moving away from ads may also create more aligned business models for... See more
Lightspeed • Firehose #163: 👥 Social recall. 👥
She may agree with the poet Mary Oliver that “creative work needs solitude. It needs concentration. . . . It needs the whole sky to fly in, and no eye watching,” or with Gertrude Stein, who warned, “It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.”
Julie Phillips • The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem
We are a collector, a museum, and a gallery. We create educational content. We’re also an auction house and an exchange rolled into one. I think if you had to recreate something for our generation, you have to rethink what that looks like and combine the pieces of what works in the world to create a new thing.
High Snobiety • Investing in Culture: An Interview With Michael Karnjanaprakorn, Founder of Otis
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