Is wallet the right word? One challenge is that we’re designing for crypto as if it’s purely money (and maybe some NFTs) in a wallet. But the role of the wallet is growing and in the near future it will be so much more than that. Your crypto wallet can become your identity, your interests, your preferences, your knowledge graph, your communication.... See more
We also tend to be more excited by enterprise focused solutions. Big companies like Facebook, Amazon and Google are concentrated on solving large consumer problems and have all the data in the world to do that really well, so it’s harder for startups to compete.
· Are we being reprogrammed by algorithms? In the last edition, I mentioned a recent tweet-er-xeet post by Twitter founder Jack Dorsey. Jack suggested that we should all be able to choose the algorithm that controls our timelines across social media products. But the underlying premise is more interesting: As social algorithms get far more effectiv
You like to imagine yourself in control of your fate, consciously planning the course of your life as best you can. But you are largely unaware of how deeply your emotions dominate you. They make you veer toward ideas that soothe your ego. They make you look for evidence that confirms what you already want to believe. They make you see what you wan... See more
People who insist that every product decision should be metrics-driven would also have to logically admit that theirs will be the first job to get automated by AI.
Today this is changing. Social media products - including our own - are delivering value by investing more in discovery engines that help people find and enjoy interesting content regardless of whether it was produced by someone you’re connected to or not.