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Braintrust focused on product/market fit and network transactions before going into Ethereum mainnet. Many projects don't go further than a white paper whereas Braintrust built supply and demand early and then went through the process of bringing things on chain.

Constraints are intentional limitations or default states designed into a product that create recurring definitions in the way people use an app. They often seem counterintuitive, play psychological tricks on users, or seem reductive in capabilities.Examples: 180 character limit, 10 second exploding photos, etc.

Rather than hold on to technostalgia for a time when it wasn’t this bad, sometimes it is worth asking what it would take to uninvent social media, so that we can chart a course for the web we want—a web that promotes democracy, knowledge, care, and equity. Otherwise, every unexplained decision by tech companies about access to information potential... See more

Now, what happens when you give millions of passionate gamers like this an opportunity to become actual digital homesteaders in a gaming world? A world where they can not only own scarce assets like virtual real estate, tradeable in-game loot, etc… but they’re also shareholders and beneficiaries in the success of the entire digital world itself?

Western social apps also rely much more heavily on advertising revenue. The lifeblood of their income statement is traffic to the feed. This means feed relevance is paramount. Anywhere one's social graph drifts from one's interests, boring content invades the feed. The signal to noise ratio shifts the wrong direction. Instead of pruning and tuning ... See more

- Global publications will gain more readers as translation technology advances. Eventually, translation technology will reach a point where people will be able to read an article and not tell which language it was originally written in.