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- Blogs are not merely alternate sites of publishing - they are alternatives to publishing itself, in the sense of publishers as a minority and professional class. In the same way you do not have to be a professional driver to drive, you no longer have to be a professional publisher to publish.
from Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations by Clay Shirky
- Over time, I came to believe that the web computing model could extend beyond the browser as we knew it — and become the entire computing experience. A few years later, I was also overseeing engineering for Chrome OS, which embodies this idea. And along the way, I helped kickstart Fuchsia OS: web-like computing taken to a much greater extreme.
from What Comes After Chrome by The Browser Company
- Mobile revolution aside, increasingly finding the desktop as my center of gravity. A few factors at play, but implications are interesting for developers, app store policies, and evolving our assumptions about the workplace of the future. Any other factors driving this?
- Scores of people in the Philippines and Vietnam have quit their jobs and make a better living playing Axie for hours every day. They earn Smooth Love Potion (SLP), a token earned through Axie gameplay that can be exchanged for fiat, which in turn can be used to pay for food, shelter, medical bills, and all of the other things needed to survive.
from What's on Deck for on Deck? by Packy McCormick
- Social media is designed to cycle through content rather than encouraging people to sit with it, to understand it at a deeper level. New content is the fuel on which these platforms run.
from The Case for Silence by Luke Burgis
- Meanwhile, beer mode is filled with surprises that are impossible to predict. On most days, you feel like you wasted time because you don’t make a breakthrough discovery. But once in a while, beer mode leads to an intellectual breakthrough that you would’ve never discovered in coffee mode. In turn, they improve how you allocate your coffee mode tim... See more
from Beer Mode and Coffee Mode - David Perell by David Perell
- Brunello: I wanted the brand to have my face. I wanted the product to convey the culture, life, lifestyle, dignity of work. We are a listed company, and I wanted to manufacture a product with dignity. I wanted a profit with dignity. Because the press all talk about the moral ethics of profit. Why can’t we have a dignified profit then?
from Brunello Cucinelli by om.co
- unlike web2 profiles, decentralized identities are backed by hard evidence: a permanent, timestamped record of a person’s accomplishments, contributions, interests, and activities to date.
from Decentralized Identity: Your Reputation Travels With You - a16z crypto by Scott Kominers
- In effect, an unbundling project has to overcome two different network effects on Reddit - the subreddit community itself, and the community’s connection to Reddit as a whole.
from Storming Reddit's Moat by Mayank Jain