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- Twitter introducing Tip Jar is a reminder that microtransactions don't work. Someone sent a dollar on PayPal and PayPal took $0.33. Now do that at scale with a ton of articles. It doesn't work. Only one solution: pre-funded wallets baked into the platform or the browser.
- DAOs & Token-based Governance is a fantasy. Stop emphasizing token-based voting; start focusing on assigning executive power. Even countries and big corporations fail to ensure wide participation by their "token holders" - instead they maintain strong executive bodies Thread 👇
- on my mind: information can move at the speed of light but deep bonds and human connection cannot move faster than the rate at which trust can grow
On Information and
- Here's another cold email from a stranger -> job at @stripe. 📧🌟 This one is extra special because it has the twist that we *created a new role* for this great person and they took @faderp's Applied probability models in marketing course. These facts are highly correlated!
This rant via Shalom Auslander
I was thinking about sex the other day because I was having a really depressing day, and a dead body had been found by the pier, and as I was taking my son to school and waiting at a traffic light, a homeless man in a mad fury began circling my car, shouting and spitting, and it felt like forever before the light turne
... See more- Before they were famous 1. Here's @YouTube's first website when it was a video dating site https://t.co/Z2wnVjSiBz
nice thread on early days
- One of my favorite business stats today is that Tesla has never spent money on advertising.
- Michael Bloomberg started his company in 1981. He was already 39 years old. He faced large incumbents with tens of thousands of installed terminals and by global news agencies. Let's take a look at how he cracked the code to become the dominant player in financial information
never badmouth your competition. it makes you look insecure.