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Monetization of publicly accessible written content has never had a strong basis on the internet, since it suffers from the public goods problem. As publishing has moved online, funding for high-quality, long-form writing has broken down.

Things tend to get worse as they scale. As startups turn to large corporations, they empty of meaning. The tight social bonds of a village fail in the big city. What goes wrong?

1/ I wrote down my thoughts on why we are willing to pay so much for NFTs. It’s too long for one tweet. Here we go.

Tokens are icing on the cake - freelancers can show up and earn 40% more than traditional marketplaces. Braintrust has abstracted away crypto brain damage. Nike is a client and they don't know or need to know they are interacting with a crypto network.

The future of education is not homeschooling, bootcamps, or cohort-based courses It's proof-of-learning: - Learning on the job through micro-tasks (applied learning) - Resume auto builds as you prove learnings digitally - Earn ownership in networks as you learn

-Creation: more tools and better economics empower individual creators

creating real connection with people

Payments make the whole cycle more powerful while also generating revenue for the company. By integrating with Paystack, they avoid building a payments company for each market they go into and avoid the regulation (and hefty central banking deposits that come with it) to register as a PSP.