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Packy McCormick • Bull & Bear: Agora, the API Powering Clubhouse
So the larger question we might ask, then, is what advantage creators get from issuing social tokens as their fungible currency rather than not only NFTs but a currency like Ethereum. And there is a simple answer: these projects get to keep a number of the tokens for themselves, effectively issuing themselves free money out of thin air and watching... See more
David Phelps • The Currency of Community
But the point is, in just a few short weeks on the job, I had already realized that because every tough decision came down to a probability, then certainty was an impossibility — which could leave me encumbered by the sense that I could never get it quite right. So rather than let myself get paralyzed in the quest for a perfect solution, or succumb... See more
Barack Obama • How I Approach the Toughest Decisions
self-promotion is important:
In the months leading up to pub day, I sent approximately 8,613 emails out to friends, professional contacts, people I talked to once in a buffet line at a writing workshop 3 years ago, people who follow me on Twitter, and people who have never heard of me or my little book, offering them galleys and (in some cases!) dir
... See moreThe contemporary idea that more is better, that follow counts are a good indicator of popularity, that basing the world almost solely around economies and GDP is reasonable would have appealed to him. He lay the groundwork for them.
thomasjbevan.substack.com • The Tyranny of Numbers - By Thomas J Bevan - The Commonplace
However, this greater time spent thinking also causes experts to be more rigid and dogmatic in their thinking. This combined with the ivory tower that experts can sometimes live in can result in them completely overlooking important, left-field new ideas.
Tony Lashley • Curatorial Governance
There are a couple reasons for this. First, crypto is massively market expansionary (e.g., how many thought Uber’s addressable market was the size of the pre-Uber taxi market). And second, Crypto will absorb the monetary premia of many non-money assets that act as an inflationary hedge."
Kyle Samani • $100 Trillion
Just as mimesis and metaphysical desire can make people conform they can also make people divide: Breaking away from the group to carve your own path can also be socially determined, s howing up with a cheap shirt to a dinner where everyone is wearing expensive suits is in some sense also a power play, y ou are so much better than the rest of them ... See more