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- Many blockchain games have advanced economies and weak gameplay, or go crypto ➡️ gameplay rather than in the other direction. What’s unique about Faraway is that it focuses as much on its gameplay as on its economy.
from Digital Economies, Gaming, and IP Legos by Rex Woodbury
- Beyond simply marketing the the product, some companies, including Shihuituan (the Uber of convenience stores in China) have made local community leaders (their version of influencers) points of contact for logistics as well, which substantially lowers their own costs, creates more connectivity with their target communities, and shares more income ... See more
from What the US can learn from China on social commerce by Jess Li
- There’s a common misconception among creators and creator platforms that getting a fan to pay for content is basically just a stronger version of hitting the “follow” button. But following a person on Twitter or YouTube and paying for the privilege are two very different things that require very different marketing and acquisition mechanisms. More ... See more
from What’s Next for Creator Platforms? Learning to Sell by Nathan Baschez
- Self-love is the balance between accepting yourself as you are while knowing you deserve better, and then working towards it.
from Good Vibes, Good Life: How Self-Love Is the Key to Unlocking Your Greatness by Vex King
- So what can we pick up? How would he look at what to build today?
from Crypto Bezos by Packy McCormick
In a word, we’ve struggled for two years to find someone with taste—with an eye for what stands the chance of being interesting, entertaining, or useful to an audience.
We’re not alone. I’ve talked to authors, podcasters, documentarians, late-night TV writers, YouTubers and TikTokers, and they all share this problem. Most of these creators are
... See morefrom The Cup of Coffee Theory of AI by Billy Oppenheimer
- If there's any kind of lesson in all this, it's mostly some advice I want to give myself.
The lesson is simply: speak up .
It's OK to slip into advocacy now and then, so long as you do it tastefully. If it sounds high- or heavy-handed — or anything like nagging — you're doing it wrong. Just explain why you care about a particular value. The goal isn'... See morefrom Here Be Sermons | Melting Asphalt by Kevin Simler
A life’s work is not a series of stepping-stones onto which we calmly place our feet, but more like an ocean crossing where there is no path, only a heading, a direction, which, of itself, is in conversation with the elements.
from Crossing the Unknown Sea: Work as a Pilgrimage of Identity by David Whyte
- This isn’t new to culture — this is culture. The difference is that software now mediates a significant share of our experience within and between worlds. And software that affords presence or spatial awareness — from a simple video chat app to a more immersive game-like product — can establish a type of proximity between individuals, or even betwe... See more
from The Minimum Viable Metaverse by Marc Geffen