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This strikes me as suboptimal. Neither the creation nor the consumption of notes should be treated as separate workflows.

julian.digital • A Meta-Layer for Notes

But there’s a long way to go to achieve the vision and pull all talent network business onto its protocol. Braintrust has done $37 million in volume all-time. Upwork, a Web2 talent network, did $904 million in its last quarter alone, Fiverr did ~$260 million. Deloitte did $50.2 billion in revenue in 2021. In all, companies spend trillions of dollar... See more

Packy McCormick • Braintrust: Fighting Capitalism with Capitalism

What is valuable is that social graph: while Facebook understands who you know, Twitter, more than any other company, understands what its users are interested in. That is, in theory, much more valuable; said value is diminished by the fact that Twitter just doesn’t have that many users, relatively speaking; the users it has, though, are extremely ... See more

Ben Thompson • Back to the Future of Twitter

To overcome the anxieties and depressions of contemporary life, individuals must become independent of the social environment to the degree that they no longer respond exclusively in terms of its rewards and punishments. To achieve such autonomy, a person has to learn to provide rewards to herself. She has to develop the ability to find enjoy

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi • Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

10. Revenue multiples are for SaaS companies. Consumer brands are valued on EBITDA multiples.

Maveron • Casper Aside, Consumer Brands are Thriving

Recently, the news of Shopify’s first foray into advertising, through their Shopify Audiences product has been making the rounds.

Tanay Jaipuria • Shopify Audiences

I often say I’m chairman of everything and the CEO of nothing. I stick to what I’m good at—vision, direction, strategy. That’s where I add the most value. I spend almost my entire day listening to other people. I ask questions, I probe, I raise possibilities

Sam Zell • Am I Being Too Subtle?: Straight Talk From a Business Rebel

platforms have an opportunity to build an underlying social graph of unique data and then to self-cannibalize by letting other platforms draw on it: the real financial opportunity for every platform, in other words, is to become a protocol that others build on top of.

David Phelps • People are the New Platforms

Despite of (or in fact, because of) all its constraints and weirdness, AI is perfect for idea generation. You often need to have a lot of ideas to have good ideas. Not everyone is good at generating lots of ideas, but AI is very good at volume. Will all these ideas be good or even sane? Of course not. But they can spark further thinking on your par