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“One area that I think is unexplored and relevant to this conversation is digital merch. What does digital merch look like? Not your avatar wearing a digital shirt. Rather: a badge saying you found this person early. Being able to flex to your friends that you found an artist or a content creator before everyone else — and you can actually prove... See more

Conversely, when media is unbundled, which means each article has to justify its own existence in the content-o-sphere, more pressure than most individual stories can bear is put on those individual stories. That’s why so much of what you read today online has an irresistible claim or question in the title that the body never manages to cash in.... See more

There are a few areas where TikTok really excels for startups:

Think Small. Swear allegiance to the concept of small groups of smart people. Remember it well when new project groups are formed. This is a key component of Simplicity, and you must become its champion. Small groups of smart people deliver better results, higher efficiency, and improved morale.

Alexander Grothendieck, who I also discussed in my  review of The Art of Learning , was one of the most productive, generative, and eccentric mathematicians of the 20th century. Grothendieck was also an energetic alien. According to multiple sources, he went through a ten-year period during which he invented (I suspect he would say discovered)

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Playboy: Why is the computer field dominated people so young? The average age of Apple employees is 29.

The reason genomics is important is that your genome is your OS. That is your operating system, and we now can read the source code for that. You can actually look at that on the computer, and you can see how your genes help determine your body, your metabolism, [and] your makeup. And you can click those genes and see whether you can metabolize... See more