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The poet David Whyte describes the unfolding of life and career as a “conversation with reality”:

From a business perspective, this centralization was a natural extension of the early internet — people were getting more connected, so just connect them  even more . Why have everyone make their own websites when everyone’s homepage could just be their Facebook page? Why try to track people down in IRC chat rooms when you could just talk to

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The team also recruited early users by going directly to their inboxes with an offer they couldn’t refuse. Garry Tan recalled a cold email he received in the early days of Coinbase (when the company was still called Bitbank) that had 0.05 BTC attached - he just had to create an account to claim it.

Driven by growing environmental awareness, ethical concerns and health reasons, consumers are choosing plant-based more than ever before – and this shift in appetite is quickly reflecting on industry market data.

Limiting Publishing Velocity — Imagine if the platforms themselves created scarcity and toned-down the “most post” overdrive by experimenting with their own versions of healthy rate-limiting (limited publishing windows, capped amount of content per day/week, etc).

The purpose of VR is to take you to a completely made-up place, and the purpose of AR is to change your experience of the place that you’re in. That pervades everything in terms of how you think about content, how you tell stories, what it is that you can actually do with these devices.

Reels — or TikToks — are a more elaborate, harder-to-make format, where creativity, talent, and effort matter much more. The intended audience, at least on TikTok, isn’t really your friends or existing followers, but really the chance of hitting it big through the app’s algorithmic recommendation engine. It has become a creative scene, more like Yo... See more