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“There’s just no way that any single private company should be responsible for arbitrating so many questions of social values” – Mark Zuckerberg

It was a question: "Given what we're trying to do now, what is the simplest thing that could possibly work?" In other words, let's focus on the goal. The goal right now is to make this routine do this thing. Let's not worry about what somebody reading the code tomorrow is going to think. Let's not worry about whether it's efficient. Let's not even ... See more

We know it can work, because it already does. Creator-focused companies such as Teachable (courses and coaching), Clubhouse (live audio), and Substack are subverting the attention economy by putting people, not platforms, in charge. These companies are all young, but they already account for millions of daily active users and hundreds of millions o... See more

The easy money to be made speculating on crypto assets seems to have distracted developers and investors from the hard work of building useful real-world services.

People are rethinking fast fashion and instead want clothes that last

The concept of a paid, crowdfunded membership for music is nothing new. Fan clubs for pop culture have been around since the early nineteenth century, and crowdfunding in particular is at the core of musical entrepreneurship in the Internet age. One of the world's first crowdfunding sites, ArtistShare, was founded in 2001 specifically for musicians... See more