In marketplaces, transaction frequency & building user habits is more important than having the highest overall GMV. Let's consider NFTs on Solana vs Ethereum through this lens, by comparing @MagicEden_NFT vs. @opensea:

Idea: GitHub for architecture Libraries, forkable plans, shared knowledge for building ecologically sustainable structures More open source culture for the built world 🏡

$20M/year & 100% bootstrapped In 2019, they were called "IDIOTS" as they were building a product that already existed. In 2023, their business is better than most VC-backed startups. Thread 🧵

Figma had $0 in revenue for 4 years. Completely breaks the “rush something to market and start charging immediately” mindset that most try to adapt. And it resulted in the largest acquisition of a private software company (ever) https://t.co/YLGBR9hJe0

I miss personal blogs when they were smaller, less polished, and felt less like a performance, and more like peeking into someone's inner life

Gotta say, it feels like we missed an opportunity to reinvent social. Can you tell them apart?

Today we announce a new venture, @ottrisk Over the last year a few things have become clear: the world is more uncertain than ever, and the situation for small businesses is more perilous than ever. Technology and capital can play a role in solving this problem.

AI generated content will answer a question until now was impossible to answer: How much of our enjoyment of art is about the art itself, and how much is it about a connection to the artist?

Some years back my wife and I got into the habit of asking each other ‘do you want comfort or solutions’ when the other was having a bad time. That one sentence can save us from an argument 9/10 times.

After years of floundering, I think I'm finally getting it: You get energy by spending it. The fuel tank metaphor is completely misleading. The body supplies energy to meet demand. The tank *expands* if you use a lot of fuel. In other words, biology is fundamentally antifragile