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Even if most people don’t have a practiced intuition or diverse networks to produce strange objects, listening to one’s own network or intuition is much more likely to voice heterodoxical opinions on the value of a cultural object compared to the wisdom of the crowd or experts as there is less noise.

So, what is it that Rick Rubin does? How has he helped artists make their best music for almost half a century across such disparate genres and styles? The secret seems to be rooted in self-discovery. As Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks put it, Rubin “has the ability and the patience to let music be discovered, not manufactured”—or, to use our te

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Crypto networks rely on open source code, but also instantiate global services that depend on open state. Open state is a critical requirement for cryptographic verification and provides the lynchpin of trust in blockchains. In addition, tokens create a new incentive model for sustaining crypto networks that is aligned with their open nature.

Broadcast television gave anyone the ability to watch TV. Since anyone could watch, the business model became advertising. With advertising, you want to maximize the number of eyeballs you can get which lead to lowest common denominator content or broadcast TV

For the most part, Web 1.0 was a fairly lonely experience – both for homesteaders & visitors. There was a lot to see, but there wasn’t that much to do.