Behind the cold, mechanical glass of every laptop sits a warm, complex human being with depths as deep as the universe is wide, and the lines between the human, the glass and the internet itself grow increasingly blurred each day.
Derived products leverage network engagement and interactions to generate an asset that can be productized and monetized directly. These usually take the form of market intelligence or aggregated data products.
What would it take to alter the foundational unit of account in web3, so that its bedrock comprises not just money and status (the “yang”), but is counterbalanced by the weight of good deeds, self-discovery and shared purpose (the “yin”)? Harmony lies in opposites, and for all the opportunity that the $2 trillion crypto market has enabled, the real... See more
Every feature request has a constituency – some group who wants it implemented, because they benefit from it. Simplicity does not have a constituency in the same way, it’s what economists call a non-excludable good – everyone benefits from it.
The first is that not every piece of research needs to fit the format of an academic paper to be useful to the world. Research can be of high quality while being highly incremental, part of a larger series of work, or done with a standardized pipeline (like the sequencing of a genome) that doesn’t require the typical format of ‘abstract – introduct... See more