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- How web3 data portability reduces the power of centralized services 🧵
- "Reclaiming Work" is a brilliant, 7-minute documentary on delivery platform co-ops around the world, created by @novaramedia: https://youtube.com/watch?v=I0Z5PBgwu60... See more
- A week ago, OnlyFans posted that they had paid out $700M to creators lifetime to date. Now the headline image says $725M. At a 20% take rate and with the approx timeline, thats ≈$800m-1.5B GMV run rate and $150-300M revenue run rate. This is a billion dollar media company.
- Mimicking Bowie Bonds seems to be the most straightforward path, but really only works under a narrow set of circumstances.
from Bowie Bonds as Early Creator Tokens by Alana Levin
If you don’t take the money, they can’t tell you what to do . That’s what Bill Cunningham said: If they pay you, they get to tell you what to do . Remember his words: “Money’s the cheapest thing. Liberty, freedom is the most expensive.”
from 31 Lessons I’ve Learned About Money by Ryan Holiday
- I believe “what effect do you want to have on people” is one of the most important questions we should ask when we are making something. Life isn't just a series of problems to be solved but experiences to be had.
from Things I'm thinking about
- “Humans don’t mind hardship, in fact they thrive on it; what they mind is not feeling necessary. Modern society has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary.” – Sebastian Junger
from Makes You Think by Morgan Housel
- "There are no shortcuts to knowledge, especially knowledge gained from personal experience. Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all."
from The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz
- 71% of Gen Z sought information about coronavirus through independent news outlets, over government organizations.
from Scar Tissue - Predictions of the Long-Term Bahaviorial Scars of the 2020 Recession on Gen Z by Jonny Hawton
- More Consumer Travel, Less Business Travel.
from We're Never Going Back by notboring.substack.com