By sorting content by quality rather than familiarity, micro-entertainment platforms also have a bigger opportunity to identify our niche interests and route that type content to us.
There’s a pressing need — and an opportunity — to build vertical-specific tools for workers striking out on their own. Much has been written about the proliferation of vertical software tools that help firms run their businesses, but the next generation of great companies will provide integrated, vertical software for individuals going solo.
ApeCoin DAO allows Yuga Labs to talk up the virtues of decentralization — community governance, interoperability, democratizing access to those very expensive Bored Apes — while also enjoying the benefits of centralization (keeping the community at arm’s length; collecting all the profits).
Do nothing for prestige or status or money or approval alone. As Paul Graham observed, “prestige is like a powerful magnet that warps even your beliefs about what you enjoy. It causes you to work not on what you like, but what you’d like to like.” Those extrinsic motivators are fine and can feel life-affirming in the moment, but they ultimately don... See more
Remote Work — Many offices and schools are experiencing complete WFH settings for the first time and need to establish infrastructure and collaborative tools to operate remotely. For those working from home, be grateful for this option, and think about ways to support many workers and small business owners who do not have this luxury and, in many c... See more
Startup idea:
Tech support for boomers. Call center.
Pay $49.99 a month.
They help boomers with their ipad/hdmi/tv/internet/netflix/watch/printers/etc. over Facetime.
Family can buy it for their boomers.
Called "Grandkid"
What's wrong with it? CAC too high?
As any asset begins to accrue greater recognition and deeper social significance, its value moves beyond being predominantly transactional and towards an expression of the owner’s identity.