Accomplishing goals is not success. How much you expand in the process is.

Human pain is too abstract to be represented in spreadsheets.

The protocol layer still provides reliability of market governance, without requiring a central intermediary or arbiter. However, market infrastructure components are decentralized and may be owned across various players in the ecosystem. This decentralisation allows a greater degree of customisation in market infrastructure while also allowing sha... See more

Once we enter the always-on reality of AR glasses, filtering will become more important. Users will want to decide which companies’ offers appear automatically, which they never want to hear from, and which should manifest conditionally. We will need a sort of AdBlock for our eyes.

Brick and mortar stores significantly lower online CAC by improving marketing efficiency (higher click through rates, higher quality scores for ads). Consumers are more likely to trust a brand they have seen in the real world. Ironic in a world where “CAC is the new rent” that one of the best ways to lower your online rent, i.e. CAC, is to pay rent... See more

What I’m really interested in is companies that are inviting new participants into types of creative work that had been previously inaccessible to people.

Additionally, GCR didn’t know how to manage part time members, and there wasn’t really a good approach to tracking their contributions and compensation mechanisms.

New technologies alter the structure of our interests: the things we think about. They alter the character of our symbols: the things we think with. And they alter the nature of community: the arena in which thoughts develop.

Product design is inherently culture design. The quote tweet feature promotes a commentary structure within the network. Compared to a simple retweet which is an act of cosigned elevation and agreement.