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I'm thrilled to announce the launch of Downshift, the world's first decelerator program tailored for high performers in transition.
Downshift is a transformative, 8-week journey aimed at fostering presence, self-discovery, and renewal.
Designed for diverse professionals who've… Show more
Steven Schlafmantwitter.comlove Steve Schlafman’s latest project… and describing it as a “decelerator” is perfect.
Virginia Woolf on her ideal diary:
I should like it to resemble some deep old desk or capacious hold-all, in which one flings a mass of odds and ends without looking them through. I should like to come back, after a year or two, and find that the collection had sorted itself and refined itself and coalesced, as such deposits so mysteriously do.”
Ricky - Not just another boring AI companion
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instead of creating temporary profiles like we do in web2, web3 promotes long-term thinking. If people were empowered to build and maintain permanent identities online, we believe that on-chain systems could encourage people to more carefully curate the reputation markers that they carry with them into the future. In this case, curating a permanent... See more
Scott Kominers • Decentralized Identity: Your Reputation Travels With You - a16z crypto
“Boy, nothing real can be threatened”
–Beyonce
on AI
Colleges are doing more and more teaching with adjuncts who get paid nothing and have no job security. What happens when professors have real alternatives, or are able to go D2C and decide to leave, the same way journalists have left places like The New York Times to go independent on Substack?
Erik Torenberg • The Higher Education Bubble
Modern Wisdom: #482 - Tyler Cowen - The Secret To Finding Great Talent
modernwisdom.libsyn.comOn talent and
Shopify today has an enterprise value of $34 billion. Its gross merchandise value (GMV) through Q3-2019 was $40 billion, up 50% over the same period in 2018. From this GMV, it collected just over $1 billion in revenues from recurring subscriptions and payments products at 56% blended gross margins. If we assume Q4-19 will be 50% higher than Q4-18 (... See more
Alex Taussig • Drinking from the Firehose | Alex Taussig, Lightspeed | Substack
The YouTube New Wave — The Publish Press
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this was incredibly thoughtful reporting on the future of media