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'- The Metaverse is coming; trends indicate our direction of travel. Our next great milestone as a networked species awaits us: 7B digital souls with the option to exist almost exclusively online and participate in a virtual economy with societal impact.
Piers Kicks • Into The Void
Exclusivity is a Double-Edged Sword – there are diminishing returns to growing an exclusive community.
The Social Token Paradox by @gaby_goldberg got me thinking about how socials tokens based on exclusivity might get trapped in a cycle of growth and diminishing social value.
Because everything that begins must end. What causes us to suffer is not in the past or the future: it is here, now, in our memory, in our expectations. We long for timelessness, we endure the passing of time: we suffer time. Time is suffering.
Carlo Rovelli • The Order of Time
Ezra Klein:
Radio, newspapers, magazines, etc... are all heavily advertising supported. The only one not built on advertising is books, almost everything else we use to talk to each other is ad-based.
Tim Hwang • Opinion | How the $500 Billion Attention Industry Really Works
Hardware and
Amazon’s ad business is bigger than YouTube and more profitable than AWS. Shein is the biggest fast-fashion retailer in the US, with no stores. US pay TV subscribers have fallen by a third. Where do ad budgets go, where does rent go, and how many brands will there be?
Benedict Evans • TV, merchant media and the unbundling of advertising — Benedict Evans
“We all know plenty of achievers who are miserable—high-performing, well-known people who are unutterably miserable. The question of, ‘How can that be?’ is the question I’m incredibly interested in these days.” - Tim Ferriss
Tim Ferriss • Brené Brown — Striving versus Self-Acceptance, Saving Marriages, and More (#409) - The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss
Unanchored - Epsilon Theory
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