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New discoveries often have to be conceived initially as variations of existing things,

even by their discoverers

, because there isn't yet the conceptual vocabulary to express them.

google’s core problem is that it was built to organize a web that no longer exists. the open web has been replaced by walled gardens, discord servers, newsletters, private forums, & algorithmic feeds that are never exposed to search. worse, the visible parts of the web that google still indexes have been overrun by seo-optimized sludge, ai-generate... See more

Only launch a token when you have figured out: 1. How the community can participate towards meaningful objectives for the network (give tokens for work to be done) 2. Who to distribute ownership to (making sure you are distributing ownership to those that create the most value)

Tobi likes to say that “the web is great, but it has two critical design flaws.” The first design flaw was that payments weren't built in, even though they almost were. And that helped Amazon grow and win this whole slice of commerce. And the second flaw was that identity was not baked into the web. It was left up to websites to decide how they man... See more

-Decouple creator payouts from audience demographic: Hank Green writes of the Creator Fund, “people with wealthy audiences don’t automatically make more than people with poorer audiences.” The “radical egalitarianism” of the Creator Fund stems from rewarding creators that generate the highest engagement, rather than those that generate the highest ... See more

So what’s the solution?

The company can’t have a say in the process of reappointment

The best consumer platforms started as entertainment and scaled into new classes of work: streamers on Twitch, influencers on Instagram and retailers on Shopify.