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There’s also a great anecdote from Nobel-winning physicist Richard Feynman, where he talks about how physics used to delight him when he used to play with it, but then it started to disgust him when he got burdened by this idea that he was obligated to advance the future of science. That he was supposed to be doing “important” work.
visakan veerasamy • Are You Serious?
If writing down your ideas always makes them more precise and more complete, then no one who hasn't written about a topic has fully formed ideas about it. And someone who never writes has no fully formed ideas about anything nontrivial.
Paul Graham • Putting Ideas Into Words
The alternative is to build something better.
Patrick O'Shaughnessy • Optimizing Your Inputs
Over the centuries, people have invented many different kinds of machines that help us do things and improve living standards. But in a very general way, what most of these inventions do is let us substitute some form of power for human effort. And as long as we were totally ignoring the costs of burning coal and oil, this was a great mechanism for... See more
Matthew Yglesias • The case for more energy
This trend has a long way to go, though. Making video games is colossally hard and expensive; you need to be a crazy genius indie game developer with ultra-high risk tolerance, or else a mega-corporation like Unity or Steam or Valve, to do it. Video games haven’t yet had their “creator revolution”.
Nabeel Qureshi • Nabeel S. Qureshi
Maybe people don’t notice every single individual detail, but in aggregate, they’re powerful.
Will Guidara • Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect a book by Will Guidara
In summary, while tokenized access was the first type of social primitive that showed the potential of tokens, it alone lacks the ability to create meaningful sustainable social token communities. Here are the problems it suffers: