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- People talk a lot about how these worlds allow you to be freer than in the physical world but there’s a flipside where people can sometimes be worse in these spaces because people feel freer to be assholes. It’s not a good thing or a bad thing necessarily—these are simply just challenges that exist in these virtual worlds.
from Lessons From 19 Years in the Metaverse by The Atlantic
- In Rifkin’s 2001 book Age of Access, he anticipated a society not unlike the one we’ll soon have, where “every activity outside the confines of family relations is a paid-for experience, a world in which traditional reciprocal obligations and expectations—mediated by feelings of faith, empathy, and solidarity—are replaced by contractual relations i... See more
from Everything Is Becoming Paywalled Content—Even You by Jason Parham
- The founders openly favored signing up the most physically attractive designers, saying they would be more appealing to clients.
from How a Hot $100 Million Design Startup Collapsed Overnight by Courtney Rubin
- 4. Long-term sustainability is elusive
from 5 lessons from Mailbox’s shut-down by Mathilde Collin
- Masa launched the Vision Fund with $28 billion of SoftBank’s own capital, $45 billion from the Saudis, $15 billion from the UAE’s fund, Mubadala, and $1-3 billion each from Apple, Qualcomm, Sharp, Foxconn, and Larry Ellison’s family office.
from Masa Madness by Packy McCormick
- users may say they want a chronological feed, but their revealed preference is the opposite.
from Threads and the Social/Communications Map by stratechery.com
The unexamined life is surely worth living, but is the unloved life worth examining? It seems a strange question until one realizes how much of our so-called mental life is about the lives we are not living, the lives we are missing out on, the lives we could be leading but for some reason are not. What we fantasize about, what we long for, are th
... See morefrom Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life by Adam Phillips
- If you went back in time to a prehistoric village and asked, “how do you solve the coincidence of wants problem?” they’d look at you strangely: “What? We don’t have that problem. If I need grain and my neighbour has it, he gives it to me, and then I owe him one.” This idea, “I owe him one”, is simple and powerful: the fundamental unit of commerce i... See more
from Debt: the First 5000 Years by Alex Danco
- How do you reduce arguments in your marriage?-“Arguing in a relationship often has little to do with the content of the argument itself” -It’s all about the art of speaking and listening
from Intimacy, Emotional Baggage, Relationship Longevity, and More – Esther Perel on The Tim Ferriss Show by Tim Ferriss