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The system manufactures students who are smart and talented and driven, yes, but also anxious, timid, and lost, with little intellectual curiosity and a stunted sense of purpose: trapped in a bubble of privilege, heading meekly in the same direction, great at what they’re doing but with no idea why they’re doing it.

Young technologists are building a new future on a new set of values. Their values are informed by the first-hand experience of growing up with the perverse incentives of yesterday’s social media and a genuine desire to create a better world — online and off.”

A rare counterexample to the principle of specialization: your site should never seem like it was made by communications people, and the best way to achieve this is for it not to be. This is something founders should continue to micromanage forever.

The Axie Universe has a self-contained economy. Players can buy and sell digital goods. For example, players can buy and sell Axie (the Pokemon-esque creatures). This economy is built around two cryptocurrencies: AXS and SLP.

Being full-time DAOs means I’m kissing traditional compensation structures goodbye. No salary, no healthcare benefits, no 401k - just ownership. Or, more specifically, tokens.

Be an idea archivist: Instead of always searching for new ideas, realize there’s a lot of virtue to going back in time and looking at the ideas that have been forgotten

Good error messages are important, but the best designs carefully prevent problems from occurring in the first place. Either eliminate error-prone conditions, or check for them and present users with a confirmation option before they commit to the action.