It doesn’t seem like Amazon faces any meaningful Web3 threats right now (perhaps AWS in the longer-term). Google search and Microsoft Office may have impregnable walls. Apple is still dominant in hardware first and foremost. YouTube could theoretically incorporate Web3 components, but that seems unlikely as they already split revenue with creators... See more
There are sites — notably Degreed and Accredible — that adapt existing notions of the credential to a world of online courses and project work. But there are also entire sectors of the innovation economy that are ceasing to rely on traditional credentials and don’t even bother with the skeumorph of an adapted degree. Particularly in the Internet’s... See more
Imagine if Mozart was born before the invention of the piano. We have a moral obligation to develop new technologies to allow for everyone to express their genius.
Success comes with an inevitable problem: market saturation. New products initially grow just by adding more customers—to grow a network, add more nodes. Eventually this stops working because nearly everyone in the target market has joined the network, and there are not enough potential customers left. From here, the focus has to shift from adding... See more
Spotify’s main form of compensation is the promise of exposure. Put your music on Spotify and it’s instantly available to 138 million subscribers, a veritable nation-state of potential listeners. But with that promise comes the relinquishing of even more control. Reaching any of those listeners depends primarily on Spotify’s recommendation systems;... See more
One of the largest issues with our food system today is the lack of accounting for negative externalities. Big Food creates products that make people sick, and externalize that cost onto the US healthcare system (and thus the US taxpayer). Big Food harms the environment, and makes the government + populace pay for it. Big Food lobbies to influence... See more