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-Displaying a Punk that you don’t own as your profile picture is frowned upon.

In an overly digitized world, people embrace with intensity the few remaining ritualistic activities available to them. Halloween gets turned into something extravagant—not just for children anymore, but adults too. The same is true of Valentine’s Day or Mardi Gras and other ritualized occasions. They are pushed to extremes because people have so... See more

But what if, all this time, providing professional content isn’t the only job we’ve been hiring media to do?

“People aren’t looking to get wasted anymore — they are health conscious and they care about their image. They don’t want to be that drunk person on Instagram; they don’t want the calories or the hangover. They’re looking for what I’m looking for.”

In the past, there have been many attempts at disrupting venture capital:

• The proliferation of angel investors (AngelList, 2010)


• Enactment and regulation of equity crowdfunding (Jobs Act, 2012)


• Cryptonative crowdfunding via token sales (2013)

While many of these efforts were successful at generating a greater supply of passive capital for founders,... See more

Now imagine a world in which this was not only a system-level setting, but an API as well. So all those services that already do this — the Kindles of the world, but also the Pockets, Instapapers, and Mediums — could tap into this functionality as well to further augment it. Hell, maybe even Microsoft Word and Google Docs and the like.