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“Community” to me does not mean a bunch of people brought together simply by their shared interest in shilling a speculative asset. It does not mean burning the precious time of our lives trading fragments of horrible companies on Robinhood. A community is in some sense a commons, something people share because it is valuable to them for its own sa... See more

Using LLM products today feels a lot like using early cars in the 1800s: clearly magical, clearly going to change the world, and really hard to drive.

The first cars didn’t have steering wheels (they hadn’t been invented yet), so you’d steer them with a big lever called a tiller. The problem with tillers is that they are imprecise, which made drivin... See more

The App economy is also just a massive waste of human capital—just think about all the wasted time we have collectively spent engineering the same feature again and again for every new App, when we could have been crafting unique commands that users can choose to obtain a la carte.

New @Zillow data shows 1 in 3 would buy a home sight-unseen with virtual tools. A structural change in home-shopping behavior is afoot. The virtual tools home shoppers need to use today for safety will become tomorrow's expectations for convenience.

Roblox could be to Facebook what Shopify is to Amazon, the non–social media social media firm.

Startup idea: Tech support for boomers. Call center. Pay $49.99 a month. They help boomers with their ipad/hdmi/tv/internet/netflix/watch/printers/etc. over Facetime. Family can buy it for their boomers. Called "Grandkid" What's wrong with it? CAC too high?

As Cory Doctorow has argued, relying on digital locks does not really empower the artist or the owner. It empowers the makers of digital locks.