i love the idea of an inspirational and concrete directional document
Mark: I understand why people would be concerned about ads as a business model. But does getting people angry and serving them provocative content make them more likely to use Facebook services over the long term? I don't think so. We are not building this for the next quarter, we want to build this for the decades to come. It's too simplistic to s... See more
Around 300BC, one of the most ambitious projects of all time was undertaken in the Greek-Egyptian city of Alexandria. The Ptolemies wanted to create the intellectual capital of the world, and so they established the famous LIbrary of Alexandria. This was not the first library, but what made it interesting was their extremely ambitious goal. They wa... See more
The world of cryptocurrency is very economic (lots of tokens flying around everywhere, with lots of functions being assigned to those tokens), very neo (the space is 12 years old!) and very liberal (freedom and voluntary participation are core to the whole thing). Do these critiques also apply to blockchain systems? If so, what conclusions should w... See more
However, a Practical Creator doesn’t find comfort in that. Because when you’re starting out, by definition, you have no audience. Crowdsourcing only works if there’s a crowd that cares in the first place, which is a luxury that’s not afforded to you in the beginning. That’s why in the first stage of the arc, you need to focus on building wealth.
While an estimated 12% of Americans hold gold, 25% of millennials with more than $50,000 in savings already own some form of crypto and another 42% are interested in purchasing crypto.
There is nothing interesting about a grid of totally random-seeming product shots on white backgrounds. There is no context, no allure, no storytelling, no social cues, no desire, no thrill, no fun.