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The knowledge worker’s productivity stack is increasingly fragmented. The familiar story of all data infrastructure companies, “Your data is everywhere, get easy access to it all in one place with our tool” holds additional weight for Notion. Notion is essentially a highly abstracted no-code tool. It has created a series of highly artistic, unusual... See more

Like the time when Braintrust’s token launched on Coinbase and traded up to above $40, and armies of bots “watched” the short videos in the Braintrust Academy library in order to pick up the BTRST tokens Braintrust offered to incentivize people to learn more about the network. When incentives are baked into everything and backed with a token, you n... See more

Substack will help writers extract more value (and commissions) from their audience. Their incentives are aligned.

Over the years, he’s refined this model. Expedia aggregated all the various hotel and travel options, but others had done that as well. However, Expedia and Booking.com were among the most aggressive to understand the importance of search. If you had the top spot in search, the next best thing was to acquire more sites so you owned the next top res... See more

And on YouTube, you make 55% of whatever YouTube makes. There is something to be said for this transparency. It has a certain amount of fairness…but then, also, it has an amount of unfairness. People who get ten times more views, can end up making significantly less money. That’s not really fair to the creator, nor is it fair to the audience, who w... See more

-Do one project at a time, in order

Each word of this sentence represents hundreds of billions of dollars of legacy infrastructure that are being replaced by software.