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Web3 products have much more tangible constraints in that they're gated by the install base of crypto wallets. If you're building a DeFi app on Ethereum, your immediately addressable market is defined by the ~25M people actively using Ethereum wallets (although this is growing quickly).

1/ I'm worried that the new monetization models we are seeing with both publishers and independent writers will worsen society's polarization into ideological echo chambers. (thread)

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Everything that Google has done to make people stay on the page and make results more accessible has resulted in a set of editorial decisions that mean we’re no longer getting straight search results that take us away from the page, but are in some kind of Upside Down Google Funhouse Internet where the content is brought directly to us, and the int... See more

In the United States, there are more than a million, according to the National Restaurant Association; together, they provide 15.6 million jobs. The number of those that are considered middle-class—which pay between $45,000 and $75,000 a year—has grown 84% between 2010 and 2018, a rate three times higher than the overall economy. In other parts of ... See more