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- The reason Instagram was so successful in the early days is it was so simple. And not just simple, but the founders really felt that it was important that they solve a problem for a user. Instagram stories was solving a problem for a user — that problem of pressure. But when you look at Reels — what problem does that solve for a user? It really sol... See more
from Instagram turns 10 by Casey Newton
- If digital art and PFPs are good news for visual artists, fan tokens unlock a whole new value stream for the rest of the entertainment industry (film, music, sports in particular). They also break the stranglehold that LA has over film and music, better connecting up-and-comers, growing the pie for all creators, and slashing LA producer “take rates... See more
from Crypto Theses for 2022 by Ryan Selkis
- That said, the web3 experience still remains complex and confusing to all but the most technical or committed. By baking money into the protocols themselves, web3 has been able to bootstrap demand further ahead of user experience than the paradigms of the past, but that won’t be enough to cross the chasm.
from The Interface Phase by notboring.co
- Mindset change is not about picking up a few pointers here and there. It's about seeing things in a new way. When people...change to a growth mindset, they change from a judge-and-be-judged framework to a learn-and-help-learn framework. Their commitment is to growth, and growth take plenty of time, effort, and mutual support
from Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck
- If you've built more than one SaaS (mainly talking to product builders and studios), you will start to realize that the process of building these standard SaaS components will take you more time than building the core functionality in the beginning.
from Products I'd Pay For, 2020 Edition – Dominic Monn by Dominic Monn
What is the nature of ‘art’? Is a work of art a commodity with a money value, to be bought and sold like a potato, or is it a gift on which no real price can be placed, to be freely exchanged?"
– Margaret Atwood (in her introduction to Lewis Hyde’s superb book, The Gift)
from I Wrote a Story for a Friend - By Julian Gough by theeggandtherock.substack.com
- Jeff’s concern is whether we’ll be able to help workers transition to new jobs
from 671 - The End of Jobs with Jeff Wald by James Altucher
- Do high-intensity work for short periods of time, as opposed to the consistent average 40 hours work week
from Daniel Vassallo on Applied Antifragility – Visión Periférica Podcast • Podcast Notes by Daniel Vassallo
- For TikTok to succeed over the long term, it has to retain D’Amelio and its other top creators even as their success continuously brings them new opportunities. (Facebook is already coming for them.) For Snap to succeed, it only has to regularly convince average people to play the lottery in between messaging their friends. This bears close watchin... See more
from Snapchat's million-dollar idea by Casey Newton