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The secret is that taking risks provides optionality as well, via learning and differentiation. If you go to an ivy league school or elite consulting firm, however, you're merely one of many. Even something as prestigious as a Harvard degree makes you only one of 315,000. If you start a company, you can truly become one of a kind—you'll be one of a... See more
Erik Torenberg • Reconsidering Career Optionality
Daunt also refused to dumb-down the store offerings. The key challenge, he claimed was to “create an environment that’s intellectually satisfying—and not in a snobbish way, but in the sense of feeding your mind.”
Ted Gioia • What Can We Learn From Barnes & Noble's Surprising Turnaround?
Agora does a ton of engineering work and spends a ton of money on co-located data centers behind the scenes to make real-time audio and video just work. The result is that someone on WiFi in Ghana and another person on 4G LTE with spotty signal in Florida can sit in the same Clubhouse room with thousands of other people and hear the conversation... See more
Packy McCormick • Bull & Bear: Agora, the API Powering Clubhouse
One concern with making in-game items tradable is that the ability to trade items can negatively affect the gameplay as people are focused on extracting value from the system or only the players that are willing to pay a lot of money for items can enjoy the game.
Linda Xie • A Beginner's Guide to NFTs
The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.
Benjamin Graham • The Intelligent Investor Rev Ed.: The Definitive Book on Value Investing
There’s simply no deep reason that economic growth requires increasing use of any physical resource. Economic value is all about the configuration of stuff, not the amount of stuff. If you took a hammer and smashed your phone to pieces, the resulting pile of trash would still contain the same amount of silicon and cobalt and gallium arsenide and so... See more
Noah Smith • The Metaverse and (near-)infinite economic growth
Deciderization 2007—a Special Report
Deciderization 2007 is an exploration of the complexities and biases involved in curating a collection of essays, as well as the challenges in defining the boundaries between fiction and nonfiction.
Linkinspo for editor's letter - thanks daisy for the rec <3
