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I propose that the main reason that most of us look more boring in public is that social predators lie in wait there. With friends, family, and close co-workers, we are around people that mostly want to like us, and know us rather well. Yes, they want us to conform too, but they apply this pressure in moderation.

Robin Hanson • Why Is Everyone So Boring?

As I was starting Atelier, Jesse Walden was working on Variant Fund, a seed-stage venture firm focused on the ownership economy thesis, backing software that is built, operated and owned by users themselves. I first met Jesse Walden when we were both working at a16z: he was on the crypto team, and I was on the consumer team. In those days (2018),... See more

Li Jin • Atelier Ventures and Variant Fund are joining forces

Conversely, as Casper discovered, there is no particular reason why a company selling consumer products ‘but on the internet’ should have any higher margins than anyone else. It seems quite likely that the great consumer reset underway now will see the creation of all sorts of new retailers, brands and products, but it doesn't follow that they will... See more

Benedict Evans • Rocket ships and tractors

Depth over engagement

and

audience-building. Far better to have one brilliant,

knowledgeable

person respond strongly and in depth to a piece than to have a hundred thousand respond shallowly.

How to use a personal website to enhance your ability to think and create?

Music has just as much engagement as video games; there’s basically no reason there should be a 7x difference in market size — except for the business model.

Erik Torenberg • Better Aligning Value Creation & Value Capture

Principle 1: Create goals that are concrete, achievable, and rewarding: Application to NoCode: The creation process for Zapier is itself concrete (there’s a clear goal which is to create an automation). The goal is also achievable on two fronts. First, it’s achievable because Zapier includes so many different lego blocks I can almost certainly... See more

Matthew Hartman • i++ Issue #4: The next Zapier or IFTTT will use Game Design

What normally took retail-first brands 3-5 years to achieve by showing sales data via farmers markets and local grocery chains, can now be achieved in 1-2 years by online-first brands.

Wilson Hung • Food & Bev: A New Approach

there are three important reasons why NFTs offer fundamentally better economics for creators. The first, already alluded to above, is by removing rent-seeking intermediaries. The logic of blockchains is once you purchase an NFT it is yours to fully control, just like when you buy books or sneakers in the real world. There are and will continue to... See more

Chris Dixon • NFTs and a Thousand True Fans

Embedded financial products open up entirely new revenue streams to productivity software companies that were previously only accessible by financial institutions. Fintech APIs (like payments from Stripe) allow companies to monetize not with expensive subscriptions but through financial instruments that were previously the purview of banks.