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Social money is branded cryptocurrency. It allows creators to reward fans for different kinds of engagement. Liking and retweeting your favorite creator’s content for example is finally worth something.

It feels as if we're at the tail end of the first era of social media in the West. Looking back at the companies that have survived, certain application architectural choices are ubiquitous. By now, we're all familiar with the infinite vertical scrolling feed of content units, the likes, the follows, the comments, the profile photos and usernames, ... See more

Early at Instagram, I noticed a lot of value was placed on simplicity. One way that manifested was through a strong aversion to creating new surfaces. When you build a new surface, you force users to expand their mental model of your product. These new surfaces will also require additional entry points to help users find them. When you have a smal

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The inevitable endpoint of this is total abstraction and meta-suppliers that serve as connectors between these larger suppliers.

4. Gains are shared more equally than ever before. The defining characteristic of economics in the 1950s is that the country got rich by making the poor less poor.

One problem with writing: once it’s put in words and recorded, you feel bound to it, it becomes harder to adjust your ideas later.

Social networks reward early adopters, and a social network with money baked in gives early believers a double-whammy. Go explore. Find an NFT that resonates with you. Join a PartyBid. Get involved. And for the love of god, don’t be one of those older folks that scoffs at NFTs.

In short, with democratized access, the web became more saturated than ever before, and as consumers, we began to spend more and more time trying to sort through it all. In a state of analysis paralysis, how do we disaggregate signal from noise?