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But they’re not alone — the internet has democratized the ability to create new reality bubbles and distort old ones. We’re just beginning to grapple with the consequences of this seismic cultural shift.

The economy has been all about scale over the past fifty years. But we’re about to think about scale and ownership very differently. The next great organizations won’t be the ones with the shiniest bells and whistles. They’ll be the ones that share equitable ownership based on a wider set of values. Collective ownership is a next step towards a... See more

In his “1,000 True Fans” essay, Kelly explains that he wasn’t as excited about this new economic model as others seemed to be. “The long tail is famously good news for two classes of people: a few lucky aggregators, such as Amazon and Netflix, and 6 billion consumers,” he writes. “But the long tail is a decidedly mixed blessing for creators.” If... See more

The effectiveness of this approach varies widely. Why does a playlist generated off a single song on Spotify work so well and yet its podcast recommendations feel generic? Why, after spending years and millions of dollars on research, including the fabled Netflix prize, do Netflix's recommendations still feel generic, and why doesn't it really... See more

The purpose of having a creator profile is to allow users to quickly understand if they want to follow/engage with a creator. The other purpose is to make creator monetization easier through tips, subscriptions, product-listing, etc. Reddit’s creator profiles can do with a few coats of varnish in both these aspects. Reddit should also consider... See more

Every time a new NFT project comes together and falls apart, every time people ape into a seemingly worthless meme, and every time a DAO makes a subtle innovation in an attempt to circumvent some constraint, the whole system evolves and it produces new tools and tricks that entrepreneurs and policy makers can use to attempt to solve large, thorny... See more

How does text-based prompting supplant or augment GUIs?

Some of the language models’ ability to infer natural language (ChatGPT) is unwieldy so there has been a lot of scrum about how text-based prompts could completely replace graphical user interfaces. My sense is that this won’t happen overnight as GUIs give way to higher fidelity or

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Don't criticize unless you can do better. Try to understand how the faulty design might have occurred: try to determine how it could have been done otherwise.