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If we don't know what we want we're less likely to get it
from Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence [Paperback] Tegmark, by Max Tegmark
Opening ceremony
- What we need is more frequent and more granular data. We can’t evaluate a slugger after three at bats - we need three hundred. This is the one liner point of this article. People will get endorsed through actions, not words, because web3 data is granular, open, and trustworthy.
from Costly signals of skill by Joey DeBruin
At three hundred feet, we are profoundly changed. The pressure at these depths is nine times that of the surface. The organs collapse. The heart beats at a quarter of its normal rate, slower than the rate of a person in a coma. Senses disappear. The brain enters a dream state. At six hundred feet down, the ocean’s pressure—some eighteen times that
... See morefrom Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us about Ourselves by James Nestor
- For the largest banks, interchange was the primary way they monetized consumers who lived paycheck to paycheck. If you live paycheck to paycheck, you have high volatility in your income and expenses and you generally don’t keep a balance in your bank account, so the bank relies on interchange fees to profitably service you.
from Wave Hunting by Ayo Omojola
- What I mean is, long ago, for who knows how many thousands of years, the primary means of communication or media was talking about things. We lived in villages or tribes. If somebody had an idea, they didn’t write a book about it; they spoke about it. If somebody wanted wisdom from the past, they didn’t go to the library; they asked someone more ex... See more
from Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man by Marshall McLuhan
- In a decade, Stripe has gone from accepting payments, which is now a commodity business, to providing an increasingly comprehensive suite of products that make it easy to start and run an online business.
from Stripe: The Internet's Most Undervalued Company by Packy McCormick
You talk a lot in the book about Instagram, and with good reason: Instagram gave way to the rise of momfluencer culture as we know it. But these days Momfluencer content is all over Tiktok, too, and that's a different format: Tiktok is more suited to raw, unfiltered videos. In what ways do you see Tiktok changing mom culture online at all fro
... See morefrom The wild world of momfluencers (Q&A with Sara Petersen) by Sara Petersen
- Naval "If you're skeptical about the idea of owning digital property, then you're not only denying capitalism on the internet .... You're saying we're not going to have a collectively owned future. We're going to have a government-owned future and corporate-owned future."
from Chris Dixon and Naval Ravikant — The Wonders of Web3, How to Pick the Right Hill to Climb, Finding the Right Amount of Crypto Regulation, Friends with Benefits, and the Untapped Potential of NFTs (#542) by Tim Ferriss
- Fast forward to today, and it’s become increasingly clear that the crypto ecosystem – specifically, its blockchain infrastructure – will fundamentally change the way we use, build and benefit from the internet.
from PART 1: THE INTERNET IS HAVING A KODAK MOMENT by Chris Rempel