Consider that the next time your partner comes to you with a problem, maybe they don’t want a solution – perhaps they just want someone to listen to them and someone to vent to
"Almost no prerequisite to any major invention was invented with that invention in mind." You used that term stepping stones, the things that we combine. You gave the example of vacuum tubes and computers. People working on vacuum tubes weren't thinking about computers, and there's a million examples like this. So I just want to plant that idea out... See more
Excel is the most popular programming language on earth, and most people who program in Excel don’t even realize they are, in fact, programming. There are an estimated 1.2 billion people who use Microsoft Office, and while it’s hard to know exactly how many people use Excel regularly, estimates put it at 750 million users. By comparison, as of... See more
Cryptomedia means we no longer need to trade off universal accessibility and usage for value capture on the internet. It means that the more the object is shared and used the more valuable it becomes.
Admittedly, I thought a bunch of the ICOs in 2017 were a joke, I don't believe that many of the NFTs today will hold value, I don't find the asset price increases of meme images intellectually interesting, I think a lot of these “communities” are overrated, and despite being a beneficiary financially of this movement, I am a bit mindblown/bothered... See more
Ad networks, most notably Facebook and Google, provided solutions to advertisers’ buying problems. The main thing they provided was more data on consumers.