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- The service is still valuable, and getting more so, but there aren't strong forces driving the expert networks to be much less fragmented than the people they connect their clients with. There are still advantages to scale, and of course the biggest network will be able to find more unique people to contact than the smaller ones, but the unique-tal... See more
from The Diff | Byrne Hobart | Substack by Byrne Hobart
- However, the Passion Economy has issues. First, platforms make constant updates that impact a creator’s earnings potential (ie: Instagram removing the “likes” metric). In addition, as social media platforms grapple with the complex challenges of censorship and free speech, there is real risk to creators of being de-platformed (ie: Zerohedge from Tw... See more
from Social Money by Marc Weinstein
The first thing I would like to say about the ordinary mind is, treat yourself with an “ordinary mind “. The most basic thing is to realize that everyone, including yourself, is an ordinary person.
from Zhang Yiming’s Last Speech: Part I by Kevin Xu
- As the internet evolves, especially for us “very online people, ” there’s a deepening sense that we are, together, becoming something beyond the scope of our original intentions. We are rapidly approaching a sum far greater and more mysterious than what we often perceive as its cold, mechanistic parts.
While we conventionally think of ourselves as “u... See morefrom Internet as Practice by Dan Hunt
- Jeff’s concern is whether we’ll be able to help workers transition to new jobs
from 671 - The End of Jobs with Jeff Wald by James Altucher
- As we spend more and more of our lives in video calls, I think there's room for productivity tools to support this behavior. One example of that is a plugin that serves as a timer and checklist inside existing solutions. Even something as simple as this could better structure SCRUM meetings, pitches, and calls, ensuring visibility and alignment. Th... See more
from Five Startup Ideas by Aashay Sanghvi
- When creating a pay-for-performance scheme, the most important design element is the choice of performance metric. A well-chosen performance metric can align the incentives of contributors with the goals of the platform, while a poorly chosen metric can be ineffective at best and encourage destructive behavior at worst.
from Economics of Tokenized Incentives 2: Selecting Effective Performance Metrics by Cathy Barrera
- Vitalik Buterin, argues that crypto won’t have a killer app at all. I disagree.
from We already know blockchain's killer apps by Haseeb Qureshi
Nobody will protect you from your suffering. You can't cry it away or eat it away or starve it away or walk it away or punch it away or even therapy it away. It's just there, and you have to survive it. You have to endure it. You have to live through it and love it and move on and be better for it and run as far as you can in the direction of your
... See morefrom Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice from Dear Sugar by cheryl strayed