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Chinese laborers "finish" smartphones by wiping off any fingerprints with a highly toxic solvent proven to shorten the workers lives. That's how valuable it is for consumers to believe their devices have been assembled by magic rather than by the fingers of underpaid and poisoned children.
Douglas Rushkoff • Team Human
This is enshittification: Surpluses are first directed to users; then, once they're locked in, surpluses go to suppliers; then once they're locked in, the surplus is handed to shareholders and the platform becomes a useless pile of shit. From mobile app stores to Steam, from Facebook to Twitter, this is the enshittification lifecycle.
Wired News • See What’s Next in Tech With the Fast Forward Newsletter
More generally across the next generation of social apps, the traditional social graph will continue to become less relevant as TikTok-like AI-powered algorithmic feeds determine what we see based on what we like. However, I am on the lookout for hybrid solutions that leverage both social graphs alongside AI-powered editing and curation.
Scott Belsky • 9 Forecasts for the Near Future, With Implications
Originally, creators didn’t exist. They weren’t a thing. So bringing them together with their audience — even if they didn’t own that audience — was amazing since it provided a degree of ads-based monetization.
Andrew Chen • What today’s social apps can learn from Web 2.0, the social network revolution from 15 years ago at andrewchen
-Decentralized building via open-source development
Katie Parrott • Legitimacy Lost
Freshbooks’ 2019 study on self-employment found that the primary motivations for those pursuing self-employment were non-financial: most individuals seek a combination of freedom, fulfillment, and career control.
Li Jin • Unbundling Work from Employment
Enterprise AI Search & Knowledge Discovery | Glean
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Despite the superior product experience and the explosive growth of market participants, the liberty of a curious learner extends only as far as the palms of the invisible hands of market demand. The opportunity cost of sitting through an 80-hour course load is the ability to spend it on hacking the game directly.
Tina He • [FKPXLS] SPECIAL VOLUME: Embedded Education
Bill thinks that the metaverse premise is wrong; he does not think the metaverse will become the next platform or the next smartphone Bill thinks Facebook’s stock would double if it ditched its VR initiative.