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How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but—mainly—to ourselves.
Julian Barnes • The Sense of an Ending
Networks have also had a contentious relationship with developers, who brought in millions of early users. Developers built alternate clients, invented UI paradigms, and even launched billion-dollar gaming companies. But as they grew, the networks realized that they didn’t need developers anymore. Most users were locked in and wouldn’t leave becaus... See more
Varun Srinivasan • Sufficient Decentralization for Social Networks
A name has gravity to it. When you give an idea a name, other ideas and examples in its gravitational field begin to accrete around it, making the idea stronger and richer, giving the idea its own life apart from yourself.
Linus Lee • Name your ideas | thesephist.com
-Direct Relationship with Users
stratechery.com • Defining Aggregators – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
And remember, these are not just collectors’ items, they are programmable assets that any developer can remix. As developers build new contexts for NFTs to live, there will be compounding demand from creators to have their work included in this emerging metaverse and for collectors to flex their ownership rights.
Jesse Walden • NFTs make the internet ownable — Mirror
MetaFactory creates and produces the very first digi-physical brands whose products will exist as both physical items and digital wearables.
MetaFactory • MetaFactory: Rearchitecting Culture for the Digital Metaverse
Creators in these niches don’t have to appeal to the lowest common denominator to viral with mainstream viewers. They can focus on delighting their smaller cadre of hardcore fans. That’s why I believe there’s a huge untapped opportunity for apps to allow micro-entertainment creators to monetize by accepting tips for recorded content, not just durin... See more
Josh Constine • Content density: Why TikToks trounce Stories
Lead, don’t manage: Be proactive rather than reactive. “Lead” your team as opposed to “manage” a situation.