FreeWill (Seed Stage) is closing this gap by providing free online wills and estate planning. FreeWill has an innovative business model. Customers set up their will at no cost; charitable organizations, meanwhile, pay FreeWill recurring revenue to access FreeWill’s customers, who are given the option to allocate a portion of their estate to... See more
Lakhani and Wolf uncovered a range of motives, but they found that enjoyment-based intrinsic motivation, namely how creative a person feels when working on the project, is the strongest and most pervasive driver.
-Compound, for example, is a lending protocol built on ETH with $10b+ of crypto available for borrowing. The creators could go away tomorrow and the code will still run.
The time for a broadened, or expanded, sense of reason—far broader than generative A.I. will ever achieve—is upon us. It’s time to shed the shackles of secular humanism and walk boldly into a future where the human spirit is not contained in a Twitter-shaped box in which Lex Fridman wonders out loud whether or not he’s real or an avatar.
Employment at a company is itself a bundle of various services and infrastructure, and there’s an opportunity for platforms to replace what workers lose when they leave traditional employment arrangements. For micro-entrepreneurs, the tradeoff of independence is a de-risked company environment for learning, pivoting, and risk-taking—and there’s an... See more
“We all know plenty of achievers who are miserable—high-performing, well-known people who are unutterably miserable. The question of, ‘How can that be?’ is the question I’m incredibly interested in these days.” - Tim Ferriss