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Sarah Tavel says she’s looking particularly closely at what she calls "Participatory Social" (e.g. Robolox, Fortnight, Discord) — platforms where communities and their members actually interact with one another, as opposed to Facebook where the model is based on content consumption.

Product market fit is just narrative distillation for customers. It only makes sense that this same process is as crucial for investors and employees, too. And just as we have spent so many years reinforcing the primacy of founders focusing on product market fit—and the process of how companies converge on it—so too must founders take distilling... See more

(Most people probably won’t finish the book, enabling the author to profit)

These large companies do not have vibes - Google improves lives, but the efficiency of search has made us forget the ancient joy of wandering through a library. not knowing what hidden knowledge we would discover hidden deep within the stats. AWS can be thought of as the most efficient way to start a website, but there is a templatized copy/paste... See more

Web2 identity solutions are centralised. You give your identity data to third party providers. As a result, there is a security and privacy risk. With Web3, you would be the single owner of your identity data. Your credentials would be stored on-chain and validated once by credential verifiers. Third party services which want to verify your... See more

While I certainly still complained about school, I realize now that my upbringing developed a love for learning—not school—learning. We would spend a ton of time reading and I would leave the library with a towering stack of books, hoping they would last the two weeks until we would come back.