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Subscription businesses allow you to distribute portions of your revenue to people who add value. This isn't rocket science this has been the business model for cable businesses for decades.

And for the first time in your career, you feel anti-fragile. You’re no longer vulnerable to a publisher’s budget cuts, pivot to video, staff redundancy after a merger, or ‘new editorial direction’. No one can say that what you believe isn’t fit to print. You can experiment with new formats or revenue streams like exclusive chat rooms, paid podcast... See more

"Today’s “best practices” lead to dead ends; the best paths are new and untried."

But I think my favorite part of learning in community is that you have the opportunity to be generous. You get to help other people in their journey instead of fixating only on your own.

Having tech platforms sponsor UCI programs is not without risk. It moves us from the real-world paradigm in which governments and central banks have absolute power over money, to an online world in which platforms have greater control over the livelihoods of emerging artists.

I believe NFTs like these will enable new types of relationship graphs which we can use to build better recommendation systems for job postings, content, dating apps, and much more.

I view the internet today as millions of subcommunities. I think NFTs are a way for subcommunities to have cultural artifacts and create little economies within them. It is a big world, so some of the popular existing ones will go awry, but my bet is that there will be many positive communities.

Wish is bringing two main UX innovations that make the app a unique e-commerce experience: (i) a discovery-based shopping experience and (ii) gamified features.