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- The act of creation causes imagination, not the other way around. To understand this is to understand the ecology that fosters the unique. Agency is precious because the lucidities that purposeful work and responsibility bring are the real education. The secret of the world is that it is a very malleable place, we must be sure that people learn thi... See more
from The Most Precious Resource Is Agency by simonsarris.substack.com
- Your attention is one of the most valuable things you possess, which is why everyone wants to steal it from you. First you must protect it, and then you must point it in the right direction.
from Keep Going: a book by Austin Kleon by Austin Kleon
- look at the sandwich you’re eating. you didn’t grow the lettuce or the wheat or the tomatoes, or crush the wheat into flour or cut the lettuce or tomatoes. you didn’t bring all the ingredients to the restaurant, and you didn’t cook any of them yourself. you didn’t design or construct the building or the cooking equipment. other people had to do all... See more
from avatar by Vincent Huang
- The supply chain crunch was started by increasing demand for goods, as consumers stopped spending on services. Americans in particular had more money in their pockets because they weren’t going on trips, spending at restaurants and bars, or attending concerts. Instead as city after city started enforcing lockdowns and restrictions, people started s... See more
from Interview: Ryan Petersen, founder and CEO of Flexport by Noah Smith
- Zero marginal transaction costs allow distributed ownership and infinite versioning: a digital commons.
from Layers by Lea Boreland
- Most critically, Dune is community-driven, composable and extensible, just like crypto. Projects can create their own project pages via a simple pull request. Anyone can create, reuse and remix queries, charts and dashboards. Crypto is moving faster every day, and the only way to keep up with it all is to leverage crypto’s core primitives: communit... See more
from Dune Analytics | Union Square Ventures by Nick Grossman
A perfect balance is wonderful when you can strike it. But periods of imbalance are healthy and necessary, too. They demonstrate to children that the burdens and sacrifices of caregiving should not be a mother’s to bear alone, and help them understand why mothers can’t always lavish them with undivided attention.
from The End of Mom Guilt by Lara Bazelon
- So what’s the difference between gaming NFTs and music NFTs? And what explains the different reactions?-One, live entertainment has always done a healthy business in collectibles; gaming hasn’t.-Two, music NFTs can more easily be positioned as helping artists...Meanwhile, game developers are generally large, profitable corporations whose relationsh... See more
from Why gamers hate crypto, and music fans don't by Casey Newton
Now pretty much every journal uses outside experts to vet papers, and papers that don ’t please reviewers get rejected. You can still write to your friends about your findings, but hiring committees and grant agencies act as if the only science that exists is the stuff published in peer-reviewed journals. This is the grand experiment we’ve been runn
... See morefrom The Rise and Fall of Peer Review by Adam Mastroianni