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-Tokenization: Protocol tokens, such as Filecoin, serve as an intra-protocol incentive scheme. By calibrating the incentives and how they align with the token, you can create a protocol just like BitTorrent where instead of merely hoping users do the right thing, you pay them to do the right thing. And instead of hoping users aren’t assholes, you c... See more
Haseeb Qureshi • We already know blockchain's killer apps
I’m intrigued with the modern version of a country club. I think of concepts like Soho House or the Wing as “urban country clubs”. These membership businesses gather communities of like-minded people. They create repeat traffic and have demographic and psychographic desirability in their members. These communities are powerful because if they endor... See more
Julie Thibault • The Internet empowered us to find our tribes. Retail isn’t keeping up.
One of the most overlooked elements of ownership in the web 3.0 space is financial transparency, particularly regarding investments and agreements. If the goal of "progressive decentralization" is to transition to community ownership, it would seem incongruent for early stage investments terms to be hidden from the community.
Austin Robey • Ways to improve the ownership economy — Mirror
At the same time, we’ve seen enough social networks come and go that we now understand the consequences of making content moderation an afterthought. Ask Reddit, which just a few weeks ago thought to explicitly ban hate speech — years after nurturing communities of racists, nonconsensual porn distributors, and other blights on the internet.
Casey Newton • Clubhouse makes an age old mistake
When a users pays a significant amount for Sunsama, they are sending a strong signal that we've created something of significant value for them. This signal drives our product development process. We build and improve Sunsama for our paying customers, first and foremost.
Sunsama • Pricing Manifesto
One major challenge is that the blockchain has, at present, approximately zero uses for the typical consumer. Theoretical uses abound, but no ordinary person is choosing a blockchain-based technology over its traditional counterpart. More than a decade after blockchains first caught tech geeks’ eye, not a single smartphone app that you use with fri... See more
theatlantic.com • NFTs Were Supposed to Protect Artists. They Don't. - The Atlantic
More and more, creative people are going to be expected to manage their own business, their own marketing, their own promotion. And I think just as equally, business people are going to find that their world is enhanced by being creative.
Rolf Potts • Conscious Creators — Make A Life Through Your Art Without Selling Your Soul: Rolf Potts — How to Find Soulful Success and The Dance Between Creativity and Business
- As an author in 2023, unless you’re Donna Tartt (and even if you are Donna Tartt honestly, because even Donna Tart has a Public Persona), it impossible to sell books without selling yourself. I spent approximately 12,302 hours writing pithy Twitter posts, drafting earnest Instagram posts, creating fucking Canva graphics, and sharing Insta stories i
Sara Petersen • Some truths about writing a book
