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- Home sequencers hooked up to your plumbing (you’d be able to pee/poop and see if you have the virus)
from Balaji Srinivasan: Exploring COVID-19 by Balaji S. Srinivasan
Nonetheless, I still find myself longing for more time, and dreaming fondly of my life as it existed three or four years ago. It simply had so much space in it. Time that made it easy to fill so many different buckets in my life. Now I fill each bucket knowing that it means that another two will stay dry. The good news is that I imagine things will
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- The purpose of this document is to articulate a high level blueprint for Koji by exploring the ways in which Koji’s product, platform, and mission intersect with broader social, cultural, and technological shifts.
from Spheres of Self: Performativity and Parasociality in the Metaverse by Koji
What if it didn’t matter how unprofitable you were?
Maybe prices stay the same but you can spend 10x or 100x more, even if that’s wildly unprofitable. Or maybe the product is free, too. How would you spend the money? How much value could you deliver, if you thought of the product as an exercise in philanthropy?
from Extreme questions to trigger new, better ideas by Jason Cohen
- Cities emerged to solve a set of problems that no longer exist. Physical goods are already made and traded elsewhere. Information and intellectual property can now be produced and exchanged online.
from Dror’s Substack | Substack by Dror Poleg
The unexamined life is surely worth living, but is the unloved life worth examining? It seems a strange question until one realizes how much of our so-called mental life is about the lives we are not living, the lives we are missing out on, the lives we could be leading but for some reason are not. What we fantasize about, what we long for, are th
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- Beyond simply copying her outfit, which isn’t the point, it speaks to a broader shift in consumer behavior: We want to hear from people, not corporations.
from Influencers Are the Retailers of the 2020s by Vogue
There is always what will turn out to be the life we led, and the life that accompanied it, the parallel life (or lives) that never actually happened, that we lived in our minds, the wished-for life (or lives): the risks untaken and the opportunities avoided or unprovided. We refer to them as our unloved lives because somewhere we believe that the
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- With revenue largely powered by recruiting solutions, paid job listings, and advertising, LinkedIn knows how to appeal to businesses at scale. LinkedIn doesn’t need you to like it.
from LinkedIn’s Alternate Universe - Divinations by Fadeke Adegbuyi