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Understand the economics of any internet industry better than anyone in the world and suggest where budding entrepreneurs might build.

The lesson here is that a lot of the value unlocked by the IoJ will be in fundamentally new, non-skeuomorphic, use cases that deliver value in ways that are both compelling & novel themselves.

If we accept that complexity is a constant, we need to always be mindful of who is bearing the burden of that complexity.

The internet of today is a battleground. The idealism of the ’90s web is gone. The web 2.0 utopia — where we all lived in rounded filter bubbles of happiness — ended with the 2016 Presidential election when we learned that the tools we thought were only life-giving could be weaponized too. The public and semi-public spaces we created to develop our... See more

I keep hearing a voice in my head that says, “The second half of your life doesn’t have to look anything like the first half of your life. The first half was bound; the second half is free.” Free, free, ever more free. Free from my own distorted thinking, free from any lingering shame and fear and resentments, free from expectations. This what I lo

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-Shopify for NFTs: Current NFT minting platforms follow the Amazon model and highlight products, not creators. New NFT platforms may follow a creator-forward model that allow creators to make their own branded stores to sell NFTs.

Consumers transitioned from the ownership of physical CDs and Digital MP3s to accessing an unlimited catalog of music, for $9.99 / month (a price that has not changed almost 13 years later).