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McLuhan once said, “We don’t know who discovered water, but we know it wasn’t a fish. A pervasive environment, a pervasive medium is always beyond perception.” The big point to McLuhan is this: the messages that these media of written language are sending to us go far beyond the actual content or subject matter of the thing that’s being written abo... See more

Eventually Bill realized that feature wars were stupid, made Internet Explorer the free, default browser for all Windows users, and won the market. Thus, a lesson was learned: when apps compete with the platforms they live on, the platform usually wins.

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Monogamous, non-fungible marketplaces are terrible business propositions: users will find a specific option that they like and leave the platform to continue with that individual forever. Promiscuous, non-fungible marketplaces, however, are the best business propositions: users will need to continue returning to the platform both to fulfill their i... See more

Naval: "A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.

Hyperstructures are entirely onchain, and are public goods which create a positive-sum ecosystem for any participants.