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It is one thing to think with a pamphlet, another to think with a newspaper, yet another to think with a televisual image, and still another to think with a meme.

Some customers have already spent more on a company’s Branded NFTs, rather than the physical products– Proof: A Coca-Cola fan spent $575,000 on this virtual jacket (image here) and other digital assets. What’s that worth in terms of Coke bottles? A fully loaded Coca-Cola truck can deliver 14k bottles a day, if the average bottle is $1, this Coke fa... See more

Voice chatting in Discord isn't like setting up a call, it doesn't involve dialing or sharing a link and password or anything at all formal. Every channel has a dedicated space for voice chat, and anyone who drops in is immediately connected and talking.

We should accept the premise that people will not run their own servers by designing systems that can distribute trust without having to distribute infrastructure. This means architecture that anticipates and accepts the inevitable outcome of relatively centralized client/server relationships, but uses cryptography (rather than infrastructure) to d... See more

One takeaway from this is that no age has a monopoly on insight, and different levels of experience offer different kinds of lessons. Vishal Khandelwal recently wrote that old guys don’t understand tech, but young guys don’t understand risk. Another way to put it is: everyone has something to teach.

The classical idea in economics that competitive-equilibrium pricing maximizes social welfare relies on the assumption that every participant in the market has the same welfare weight—but that’s not the case in markets where there is significant inequality.

we imagined automation would free us first. robots would take the boring jobs, assembly lines, delivery routes, deep sea welding, & humans would finally get to explore, create, feel.

but here we are.

people still stock shelves, drive trucks, clean bathrooms.

but the machines are now writing poems. they’re making music. they’re painting. they’re whispe... See more