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- Billions of dollars have been sucked out of the industry this year as it is completely shut, and virtual is making up only a tiny fraction of that.
from The Event Industry Is Being Confronted By Its Napster Moment by Rafat Ali
- Chinese social-commerce apps like Douyin (Tiktok in China) or Xiaohongshu are closer to what Curator-led retail experiences could be. Verified influencers are able to list or tag products sourced from wholesale sites like Taobao or JD.com, and followers can check out directly on the streamer's page. Douyin, which has about 300M daily active users, ... See more
from The Curator Economy: A Retail Revolution (Part II) by Tara Tan
- ...loneliness levels have reached an all-time peak, 13% of Americans are on antidepressants, the U.S. suicide rate is at its highest since World War II, and polarization appears to be rising...
from A Religious Realignment by Meera Clark
Everything depends on what we would rather do than change.
from Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life by Adam Phillips
An echo chamber is a collaborative culture of low-rung thinking based on a sacred set of ideas that cannot be challenged by anyone in the echo chamber
from #360 – Tim Urban: Tribalism, Marxism, Liberalism, Social Justice, and Politics | Lex Fridman Podcast by Tim Urban
- #2: Match between system and the real world The design should speak the users' language. Use words, phrases, and concepts familiar to the user, rather than internal jargon.
from 10 Usability Heuristics for User Interface Design by Jakob Nielsen
- Applications include decentralized domain name system, autonomous organizations, prediction, and financial markets, and non-fungible tokens
from The Tim Ferriss Show Transcripts: Vitalik Buterin, Creator of Ethereum, on Understanding Ethereum, ETH vs. BTC, ETH2, Scaling Plans and Timelines, NFTs, Future Considerations, Life Extension, and More (Featuring Naval Ravikant) (#504) – The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss by Vitalik Buterin
- One of the key lessons of the Wisdom of Crowds is that we don't always know where good information is. That's why, in general, it's smarter to cast as wide a net as possible, rather than wasting time figuring out who should be in the group and who should not. This idea is well suited to the internet.
from The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki