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One of the interesting alternatives to this is Urbit, which is trying to build a network in which identity exists from the start, and is neither free nor monopolized. One of Urbit's principles is that users own their data, and while they can use third-party services, they're sharing their data with services, not using a login to access information ... See more

The top 10 music accounts on Twitch by direct earnings make between $50,000 and $400,000 a year from channel subscriptions, ads and Twitch Bit donations. The vast majority of these accounts belong to independent artists, and there is almost no correlation between an artist’s Spotify followers and their Twitch earnings.

And while we have done pretty well with respect to doers in the last few decades, we’ve done much worse with thinkers. Our world, since the second half of the previous century, has in fact moved to being mostly about doers and not thinkers.

As these examples—Amazon, Google, Clubhouse—make clear, “execution being the constraint” doesn’t mean “ideas aren’t the constraint.” Even if the broad idea is “obvious” (online store, search engine, audio social media), successful execution requires having good “intermediate ideas” (starting with books for Amazon, PageRank for Google, the implement... See more

The book opens with a strong statement: our conventional origin story for money is totally wrong.