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And it’s not just Facebook. So much of the digital experiences we spend time on have this passivity ingrained. Instagram, Netflix, YouTube. The result? We know from Facebook’s own research that passive experiences leave people feeling worse. It’s when people interact with each other — when they actively participate in the digital forum — that they... See more
Sarah Tavel • The Era of Participatory Social
I keep hearing a voice in my head that says, “The second half of your life doesn’t have to look anything like the first half of your life. The first half was bound; the second half is free.” Free, free, ever more free. Free from my own distorted thinking, free from any lingering shame and fear and resentments, free from expectations. This what I... See more
Sari Botton • This is 54: Author Elizabeth Gilbert Responds to The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire
We also now have a persuasive “so what?” These technologies have enabled a whole new user interface for computers: human language. Just like the graphical user interface made the personal computer accessible to millions of customers in the 1980s, so too have the new natural language interfaces made AI accessible to hundreds of millions of users... See more
Konstantine Buhler • AI and the Frontier Paradox
I think Ev Williams captured this best in his answer to a related question on Quora:
Having a large number of users and the inability to monetize them is a non-existent problem. People talk about it all the time, but it doesn’t really happen—at least it doesn’t happen in today’s world. I’m not even sure it ever did.
Josh Elman • “How will they make money?” is the wrong question
But there is a hole in the market for more sophisticated investors and those who are ready to graduate from Wealthfront and Robinhood. Just as many B2B SaaS companies took inspiration from consumer software -- the “consumerization of enterprise SaaS” -- Composer is building a prosumer investing product with a consumer-quality UI and... See more
Benjamin Rollert • Not Boring Memo: Composer
Crypto companies that launch a token maintain two capitalization tables: equity and token cap tables. They are distinct but related.