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The community needs to be small first to work when it gets really big. That’s what makes Axie hard to copy -- if you build a competitor now, you’re going to attract the kind of people who want to find the next Axie, not the kind of people who are actually interested in moving gaming forward.

Social networks are therefore not only signaling distribution (and amplification) networks – they also allow users to prove their signaling messages.

It’s commonly thought that legumes are the best plant-based protein alternative to animal-based protein, but you should know that their protein percentage is reduced 3-4x when cooked/hydrated (dropping from 20% to ~7%)

Consequently, this late in the game Medium almost has no choice but to pivot into the #4 locus of value described above: “niche focus on the demand side [like] products and services that specific consumers use to accomplish specific jobs.” Thereafter, monetization is simply a question of: ‘what can we offer that’s scarce and who wants access to it?... See more

You must learn to let your conscious decisions dictate your day—not your fears or impulses.

Voting tokens are based on one simple assumption: that the price of the token is strongly correlated to the success of the underlying project, so token holders are incentivized to use their tokens to participate in votes and make decisions beneficial to the project’s future development.

An over-dependence on artificial intelligence is often just lethargy disguised as efficiency, and the “outsource everything to AI” crowd ignores the fact that the work is often more valuable than the output.

I have two predictions regarding the broader use of AI as a crutch:

First, folks who are willing to go out of their way to add a human touch to... See more

The best subjective search content often lives on forums, long-tail blogs, social media, and review sites. It doesn’t live in SEO optimized websites or big media publications. It is not readily surfaced on Google.