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Facebook is like the mall: it was a cool place to hang out when we were teenagers but now it’s a decaying monument to the past; I return there sporadically to shop & see elderly people getting into fights

The Creator Economy - is starting its transition to the Community Economy. The Community Economy – enabled by cryptonetworks and social tokens – incentivizes early followers to use their underutilized skills and assets to support a community or individual. A quick thread 👇🏻

“Arrogance is ignorance plus conviction,” blogger Tim Urban explains. “While humility is a permeable filter that absorbs life experience and converts it into knowledge and wisdom, arrogance is a rubber shield that life experience simply bounces off of.”

We began with the idea that underpins all of Girard’s theories––imitation. Conflict between people, he believes, is rooted in our propensity for imitation or in what he calls “mimetic desire”—an idea that began to take shape for him through his study of the great European novelists.

Discovery problems are as old as civilization. In recent years, however, the ever-growing role of the internet has suddenly made these problems much more difficult. The reason is simple: In the internet era, we are faced with an overwhelming number of options to choose from. In the mood for some music? Spotify has more than 70 million tracks on off... See more

This gives the companies more control over hosting and distribution of podcasts, which will allow for better targeting and dynamic insertion for ads. Under this new paradigm, advertisers can achieve the same level of targeting and scale available on the Facebooks and YouTubes of the world.