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The idea of having this giant graph where all your data is hyperlinked is cute, but in practice, it’s completely unnecessary. Things live in separate apps just fine. How often, truly, do you find yourself wanting to link a task in your todo list app to a file in Dropbox?

Before the company realized Pinterest was essentially doing what they did, it was too late. Even worse, they did not know how to make money off of their free service.

Other stories which are starting to breakdown revolve around broader societal assumptions. “All technology is good, and the more technology we develop, the more our society advances” or “bottled water is better for you”. These widely accepted stories don’t make sense anymore when you take into account the mountains of electronic waste in Ghana, or... See more

Smart contracting platforms like Ethereum and Solana address the two most important components of coordination: global market-based standards upon which further innovation can build, and a source of digitally native trust production. They create a peer-to-peer contracting environment and streamline human coordination.

I think this is why certain NFT projects, even new ones, do well while others flop. Pudgy Penguins, Art Blocks, and Bored Ape Yacht Club have all captured the attention and imagination of communities of people, who in turn tell the projects’ stories, which forms a narrative around the projects that give them staying power. They built worlds in... See more