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Intellectual loneliness is a challenge that many people feel, but nobody talks about. It’s built on a paradox where you feel alive when you’re learning on the Internet but soul-crushed when you try to talk about those same ideas with friends and family.

The notion of the “organization man”—a term popularized by William H. Whyte’s seminal 1956 book that describes the subsuming of individual agency in service of a large corporation—is giving way to the rise of “micro-entrepreneurs,” or free agents, creators, freelancers, and independent workers who utilize digital platforms to make a living by lever... See more

Web2 platforms coerce user loyalty through network effects and closed data, and exiting a platform leaves creators without access to their audiences or content. Web3 affords the opportunity to build systems that foster user agency and self-determination through true digital ownership, open data, and networks that are built atop open-source software... See more

The media business has traditionally been built around content. There have been hints of culture driven commerce throughout the years in the NYT blue bag, the New Yorker tote bag, but most of these attempts teetered on the edge of membership and nowhere near the manufacturing of subcultures. We are seeing new media companies begin to work towards t... See more

The citation (link) graph of the web is an important resource that has largely gone unused in existing  web search engines. We have created maps containing as many as 518 million of these hyperlinks, a  significant sample of the total. These maps allow rapid calculation of a web page’s "PageRank", an  objective measure of its citatio... See more

Kagan Sumer — founder of Gorillas, one of the best known startups in the Quick Commerce space — consistently says, “We have the technology to go to space and we’re still going to the supermarket?” It’s a thought provoking idea, especially when compounded by our poor ability to manage our personal kitchen pantry inventory, which results in 54 billio... See more