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There should be a better way to finance recurring revenue businesses.

The way to get new ideas is to notice anomalies: what seems strange, or missing, or broken? You can see anomalies in everyday life (much of standup comedy is based on this), but the best place to look for them is at the frontiers of knowledge.

Knowledge grows fractally. From a distance its edges look smooth, but when you learn enough to get close to

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Once you have gathered a small and tight community around a shared vision, the next step is to design the Tokenomics of your project.

The decentralization of clients within DeFi is somewhat straightforward given their relative simplicity — very little incentivization is necessary to get third parties to build independent and simple gateways (mostly in the form of websites) to such protocols. However, as web3 products and services become increasingly complex, with computationally... See more

Material Bank enables interior designers and architects to perform complex searches and order samples from multiple suppliers from a single platform. They offer materials such as carpet, flooring, wall coverings, glass, paint, metals, woods, and other textiles.

130 years on, privacy is still largely conceived of as an individual thing, wherein we get to make solo decisions about when we want to be left alone and when we’re comfortable being trespassed upon. This principle undergirds the notice-and-consent model of data management, which you might also know as the pavlovian response to click “I agree” on... See more

8. First order irrational, second order rational (h/t Chris Paik)

Consumer Social: ~25% is GOOD, ~45% is GREAT

In 2020, nearly 2/3rds of queries on Google ended on Google itself i.e., without clicking on an external link (organic or ad). This highlights how over time Google is increasingly showing the results for common queries inline (in its knowledge graph) rather than directing traffic to websites.