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"When Patreon talks about how 'the system is broken,' they're talking specifically about advertising models on YouTube, Facebook and Instagram," Austin Robey, co-founder of Ampled, tells me. "When we [Ampled] talk about a system being broken, it's not just ad models — it's the whole, underlying economic operating system on which startups are built.... See more

As Ben Thompson notes in The Web’s Missing Interoperability, interoperability was actually one of the core benefits mentioned at the start of the last wave of consumer tech, what many refer to as Web2.0. But we didn’t get interoperability from the big Web2 giants of Facebook, Twitter, and the like. We got almost the exact opposite — business models... See more

Community is bullshit, so, my theory was as follows, if someone has the token, it is in their best interest to do whatever they can to increase the value of their token. How naïve I was. And I guess this is partly our own fault as a defi community for calling it governance tokens. Because all people want to do is govern, but not in the trenches... See more

It's a common misconception that burnouts come from hard work.  Burnout comes from a felt loss of control and/or impact.  Remember that you can burn out employees (or yourself) with little to no work.

Sometimes an artist comes to me and they’re like, “I’ve made all these things and I’ve been really successful, but I’m lost. I don’t know what to do next.” And then it’s, like, “Let’s figure it out together. Tell me, what do you like? What do you feel? When was the last time you were really excited by it? What was the first time you were really

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