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My thesis is that when deployed at scale, using a market where users value content in real time will be superior in surfacing quality content to the ad driven model we use today. An attention market will align incentives where the best content is incentivized, boosted, and has a permanence that is missing from the real time feeds we use today. We c... See more

When we’re unsure about what to do or buy, we look to testimonials, ratings, and reviews to tell us how to behave

People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child—our own two eyes. All is a miracle.

-Contribution and role data. Right now there is simply no way to know who works in what DAO, who is in what guild, or who has done what project.

What is certainly true is this: Creator platforms flourish when they provide opportunity for anyone to grow and succeed.

One less obvious shortcoming of token-based DAOs is their flat structures. By flat structure, I am referring to the fact that token-based DAOs are often direct democracies where every proposal is voted on by all token holders, without any political tools like Parliaments, executive branches, bureaucracies, standing committees, and so on.

As these examples—Amazon, Google, Clubhouse—make clear, “execution being the constraint” doesn’t mean “ideas aren’t the constraint.” Even if the broad idea is “obvious” (online store, search engine, audio social media), successful execution requires having good “intermediate ideas” (starting with books for Amazon, PageRank for Google, the implement... See more

It is breathtaking how slow, substandard and unfocused many companies out there get through the day. And think nothing of it. The lack of energy is palatable. There is performance upside everywhere. As a leader, your opportunity is to reset in each of these dimensions. You do it in every single conversation, meeting, and encounter. You look for and

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