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- It seems odd to look at achievement through this lens, not as the thing the newspapers tell us it is, but – very often – as a species of mental illness. Those who put up the skyscrapers, write the bestselling books, perform on stage, or make partner may, in fact, be the unwell ones. Whereas the characters who – without agony – can bear an ordinary ... See more
from Overcoming the Need to Be Exceptional by The School of Life
- The fact that entirely new global networks and economies were spawned by fair agreements between musicians, designers, and organisers. The individual is truly more independent under an interdependent regime, with a network of people who have their back, or an audience of people who cover their expenses.
from Web3 As An Interdependent Economy: A Conversation With Mat Dryhurst by George Howard
From Bill Gates’ conversation with Trevor Noah on the What now? podcast, reflecting on social media and the Internet:
... See moreOur industry was very young and just incredibly fast moving, but it didn't have this, oh, this will be a tool for Holocaust denial or weird impacts. And the idea that it would directly be used for political influence, one country try
- As a new founder, it’s tempting and often discouraging to compare your inside to another’s outside. Every other founder and company looks so well put together, whereas you are of course all too aware of your shortcomings and insecurities.
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Because of how much we deify the great entrepreneurs of our time, we end up inevitably comparing our new companyfrom Edward Lando by John Koenig
- As a new founder, it’s tempting and often discouraging to compare your inside to another’s outside. Every other founder and company looks so well put together, whereas you are of course all too aware of your shortcomings and insecurities.
- Sometimes, programming feels like magic: you chant some arcane incantation and a fleet of robots do your bidding. But sometimes, magic is mundane. If you’re willing to embrace the grind, you can pull off the impossible.
from Embrace the Grind by jacobian.org
- Notably, Snap is placing its incentives at the level of the content, rather than the creator. While some Spotlight posts bear the creator’s name, many really are anonymous — allowing people to profit from their posts without having to develop (and eventually become boxed in by) Snapchat-specific personas.
from Snapchat's million-dollar idea by Casey Newton
- Harry Stebbings, Founder of The Twenty Minute VC and 20VC fund, says, "Seeing more value captured by users, both individually and collectively, is one of the most exciting aspects of Web3. It removes intermediaries from traditional Web2 aggregators and gatekeepers, which is key for the democratization of income creation in the digital world."
from The New Creator Economy: A Guide to Web3 Creator Platforms by Speedinvest
- One of the areas I am most passionate about as an investor and consumer is “precision wellness” — the shift from products focused on content and community to those which also incorporate deeper tech elements like passive and more accurate biometric sensing, smarter algorithms employed to drive precision treatment and nutrition, more immersive exper... See more
from Consumer Subscription Trends by Brett Bivens
- The arrival of blockchains over the past decade created a new option for impatient VCs. Companies in the Web 2.0 era produced only goods and services, whose value was always denominated in dollars or other national currencies. But companies in the web3 era offer a third product — tokens — and the value of those tokens is far less tethered to realit... See more
from There's Something Off About ApeCoin by Casey Newton