Bright, Devoted, and Oscar have all structured their plans to financially align themselves with providers: when providers provide cost-effective care, both parties gain.

41% of US consumers find influencer content more relatable than the brand’s own advertising.

There is a similar pattern for chat apps: WhatsApp, iMessage, Telegram, Facebook Messenger and Snapchat all have at least 100 million users. Why doesn’t the market tip in favor of one or two of them as the literature suggests?

Substack has other loops, but this is their central one.

Smart contracts go beyond simply allowing for instant and verifiable transactions for various applications though — they can also be programmed to interact with each other. In other words, they make crypto programs composable, like building blocks.

It is my firm belief that the best way to fix the world—a handyman’s dream, if ever there was one—is to fix yourself

But it’s also because newspapers were an oligopoly, and they lose that oligopoly online. Newspapers are, yes, a content business, but they were also a light manufacturing business, and it was the replacement of light manufacturing and trucking with bits that removed the barrier to entry and unbundled their attention.

Read in plain English, the tokens you earn are the results of f(inputs) where inputs are the time, materials, skills, the value of the work output you create.

Think of it as a spectrum. Things we dump into private WhatsApp group chats, DMs, and cavalier Tweet threads are part of our chaos streams - a continuous flow of high noise / low signal ideas. On the other end we have highly performative and cultivated artefacts like published books that you prune and tend for years. Gardening sits in the middle. I... See more