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After the staking-to-curate behavior becomes better familiarized among users, then I think the timing will be more ripe for introducing staked curation of specific content. This is how I hope to actually expand the Verse protocol in the long-run. Over time, I want users to be able to curate their top “people” within their network as well as the top... See more

A sneaky kind of assured misery is when you have no room for error in your life, which feels like maximizing efficiency but actually just means you’re guaranteeing disappointment when the world inevitably wobbles.

Wei and Kim aren’t the first founders to see a business opportunity in the gap between traditional institutions and a rising class of new digital entrepreneurs. Brex, the startup that offers charge cards for other startups, got started in 2017, after its cofounders saw how people who couldn’t get business credit were paying for startup expenses on ... See more

Quite simply, it means that the default state of a product - including the default settings for notifications, the onboarding experience, the welcome message you get etc - determine the product’s fate. It’s the only portion of the product that EVERY user experiences, and it sets the bit for every behavior.

The Internet's recency bias is bad for humanity. Our social media feeds prioritize recency over quality, which robs us of wisdom and makes us obsessed with the news. How to improve the Internet:

The Creator Economy gets a lot of hype - but the Expertise Economy may be even bigger. Not everyone can make content or has an audience. But everyone is an "expert" on something! What if you could monetize this? 👇

Google is trying to kill the 10 blue links. Twitter is being abandoned to bots and blue ticks. There’s the junkification of Amazon and the enshittification of TikTok. Layoffs are gutting online media. A job posting looking for an “AI editor” expects “output of 200 to 250 articles per week.” ChatGPT is being used to generate whole spam sites. Etsy i... See more