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“Shibuya is a web3 video platform allowing users to engage, fund, vote on the outcome and become owners of long-form content. “

This is not generally how we run collaborative systems because we run them by consensus, which is the exact opposite. That's about pruning out stepping stones. People start generating things and then we start saying, "No, no, no. Committee doesn't like this. Committee doesn't like that." We then converge to the thing, which is basically the... See more

Going local is a potential antidote to conspiratorial spiraling. If you have a “conspiracy theory” about how your neighborhood is being run, you can usually investigate for yourself, become a community organizer, and change things.

In the world of Almost Famous, Instagram would be the social network for the Stillwaters, the Russell Hammonds, the Penny Lanes. Beautiful people, cool people. Twitter was for the uncool, the geeks, the wonks, the wits, the misfits. Twitter was honest and unmerciful, sometimes cruelly so, but at its best it felt like a true friend.

But what’s unique about NFTs—and where they differ from tulips and Beanie Babies—is that NFTs are a type of cryptographic token. NFTs use blockchain technology to denote digital ownership—of anything. NFTs aren’t a fad themselves; they may power a fad, but they aren’t the fad. They’re more akin to the technology behind Beanie Babies (the... See more

Something important changed between the 90s and today. If you look at most open source projects now, the distribution of who’s doing the work versus who’s simply there is skewed dramatically: it’s common to see projects where 95% of the work is done by a nucleus of people, perhaps even a single developer, with a long tail of “contributors” who are... See more

Not a lot of capital is required. All you really need is one employee with an internet connection. However, there are a lot of nuances to connecting expertise as the business scales.