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Katie: Centralized and decentralized models can coexist. There is a big class of consumers who might want to use a marketplace like OpenSea. In exchange for the take rate, you get discovery, reliability, etc... You will see decentralized marketplaces for NFTs as well.

Essays, photographs, videogames, podcasts – these are what we create. They live on mediums, like word documents, film, canvas, software, and audio. On the other side of the canvas or the lens or the microphone are the humans casting their ideas into form. And in between, at the point of contact between the creator and the creation, the human and th... See more

As I’ve noted before, as the public Web and social media become too crowded, the entertainers and creators who can grow an audience are building their careers in public, but the rest of us are collecting in smaller, more private spaces like group chats and personal servers.

But as an attitudinal foundation for relating to society and technology, Waldenponding is, I am convinced, a terrible philosophy at both a personal and collective level.  It's a world-and-life negation. A kind of selfish free-riding/tragedy of the commons: not learning to handle your share of the increased attention-management load required t

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Modern capitalism made the idea of trusting people with whom you had no personal ties seem reasonable, if only by demonstrating that strangers would not, as a matter of course, betray you. Buying and selling no longer required a personal connection. It's driven instead by the benefits of mutual exchange.

Ethereum is so much more than a cryptocurrency. It’s a “world computer,” and the “value layer” of the internet. It lets people build apps and products with money baked into the code. If you believe that web3 is going to continue to grow, then you likely believe that over time, Ethereum will become the settlement layer of a new internet.