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- In the Mirror case, that was writers who aren’t publishing frequently.
from Li Jin on The Passion Economy & Its Hidden Currency by Li Jin
- There are two kinds of fame: 1) Kim Kardashian Fame: You're famous for being famous, so everybody knows who you are. 2) Charlie Munger Fame: A small number of people deeply respect how you think, but most people wouldn't stop if they saw you on the street. Choose Munger fame.
Sometimes “willing and able” is a matter of market-timing. A famous example is Instacart: Successful after 80% of Americans carried a smart phone, unlike WebVan which was exactly the same idea, solving the same problem in much the same way, but the market wasn’t ready for it.
from A Smart Bear » Excuse me, is there a problem? by longform.asmartbear.com
- One Wikipedian, with the handle of Durova, is pessimistic about the ability of Wikipedia to remain personable. She came up with a formulation that seems to track Wikipedia's evolution:
from The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia by Andrew Lih
- A conceptual unlock that made me get the excitement about web3: stackability 📚 👇
- As one brand leaves its curiosity gap open for a particular consumer, another comparable brand is able to swoop in and fill the gap quickly thus acquiring the customer away from their competition. Over long periods this dissonance and operational thrash fracture both the customers’ contract and affinity with the brand.
from The Fatal Flaw of The DTC Playbook & The Search for Internet Diamonds by Nate Poulin
- Axie’s economy has two tokens—two in-game currencies that underpin the Axie economy. The first is Axie Infinity Shards, or AXS, which is Axie’s governance token.
from Digital Native | Rex Woodbury | Substack by Rex Woodbury
- Admission to a top school can be life changing, but in a country that graduates over 3.5 million people from high school every year, the 1,700-person freshman class at Harvard is immaterial. Over the past 30 years, the number of seats at Ivy League schools has increased only 14 percent, while the number of high school graduates has expanded by 44 p... See more
from Higher Ed 2.0 (What We Got Right/Wrong) | No Mercy / No Malice by Scott Galloway