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Is wallet the right word? One challenge is that we’re designing for crypto as if it’s purely money (and maybe some NFTs) in a wallet. But the role of the wallet is growing and in the near future it will be so much more than that. Your crypto wallet can become your identity, your interests, your preferences, your knowledge graph, your communication.... See more

The press, sometimes they don’t understand that we’re human beings. It was a lot of pressure to be The Emperor. I came from nothing. I was a kid who just wanted to go play football and then drink his drink and hang out with his boys. And I know that’s not something you hear from a lot of footballers these days, because everything is so serious

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Some of us may prefer just to hear the content, some of us want the visual interaction, some of us actually want to write it down, some of us want to teach it to another person in order to understand it. And so my view is we have to do a fundamental educational reform, because the reality is, going through a formal education system just once in our... See more

But disrupting the daycare system has turned out to be harder than it looked, with several of the startups hitting a basic problem: the platform model that is one of Silicon Valley’s go-to solutions may not work as well in daycare. “This is not your typical tech company where you can kind of fake it and make it,” Selke said. “You’re talking about c... See more

This was the overwhelming lesson of the early internet. It works because it mirrors the social interaction of real life, where social groups exclude people who don’t fit in. And it works because it distributes the task of policing the internet to a vast number of volunteers, who provide the free labor of keeping forums fun, because to them maintai

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Katie: Not everything in crypto is decentralized in terms of business models. For example, Coinbase is a centralized exchange. Like Coinbase, OpenSea is centralized. The difference between the tech giants and OpenSea is that OpenSea takes a modest take rate on every sale. The powerful difference is that the vast majority of the money that is being ... See more

We’re now sobering up to this awareness: the value of content. Entertaining, enlightening, and informing people is a valuable economic activity. This change in the zeitgeist broke this assumption that creative and quality content will flow into platforms without real incentives. We’re moving quickly from a world of free content to a world of paid c... See more