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0% of US parents want to homeschool their children but only 3% do.
Mercedes Bent • The Future is Happening Now: Accelerating into a New World of Edtech
The fastest growing sector of the culture economy is distraction . Or call it scrolling or swiping or wasting time or whatever you want. But it’s not art or entertainment, just ceaseless activity.
The key is that each stimulus only lasts a few seconds, and must be repeated.
The key is that each stimulus only lasts a few seconds, and must be repeated.
Ted Gioia • The State of the Culture, 2024
Instead of movies, users get served up an endless sequence of 15-second videos. Instead of symphonies, listeners hear bite-sized melodies, usually accompanied by one of these tiny videos—just enough for a dopamine hit, and no more.
This is the new culture. And its most striking feature is the absence of Culture (with a capital C) or even mindless entertainment—both get replaced by compulsive activity.
The world is moving toward globalized and hyper-connected financial interests (community and geographically based). Despite that fact, there is no crowdfunding platform built for the kind of deep, impactful collaboration that will happen over the next +10 years.
Aashay Sanghvi • Five Startup Ideas
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Venture Desktop • Global Like Goldman
The Biden administration is expanding the welfare state, through the new child tax credit and other initiatives. Congressional Democrats are crafting a new New Deal. But little attention is being paid to making things work, rather than making them exist.
The Atlantic • The Time Tax
In high school, Tumblr was the one social/media platform where I actually felt a sense of ownership and control, despite rarely creating original content. Tumblr was one of the few places on the internet that actually felt like a PLACE, and there’s a reason that after all these years it’s resonating with Gen Z’s more than Instagram and Facebook.... See more
Jay Drain Jr • The Crypto Wallet: Unlocking Digital Identity
Yes, skill trees do assume some level of linear, top-down progression as opposed to completely open-world exploration. But from a game-design perspective, one of the main benefits of skill trees is that they distribute complexity more incrementally over the course of a game, instead of dumping all possible abilities or powers onto a player’s... See more
Water & Music • Rethinking “gamification” for DAOs
Daybreak — A creative studio
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