As mail became an enterprise utility, more and more of its collaborative function was corrupted, as signalled above. It could not be a trusted medium with functions like cc and bc in common use. There were other problems. Email was fundamentally a broadcast mechanism. Control lay in the hands of the sender. And there was no real cost to sending. Un... See more
The most important shift may be that credentials matter less than they have, and proving that you can do the work matters more. Between YouTube, Udemy, Replit, Optilistic, and a wide range of online educational resources, anyone smart and motivated enough can learn practically anything they want.
the case for not having comments on sublime. ideas are fragile.
But five years in, it's clear that Discord has done something remarkable. It's built a space that feels unlike any other on the internet. It's not quite group chat, it's not quite forums, it's not quite conference calling. It's all of those things and none of them. It turns out, in that messy middle, is a place that mirrors what it's like to be hum... See more
In a world where people are starting to pay more and more money to content platforms, and those platforms share that money with creators it’s about time we gave users the ability to decide what kind of content they want to reward.
Wikipedia was, in some ways, the first Media DAO (I'm not the first person to say this)
I listened to co-founder of Wikipedia @jimmy_wales speak last week
He said something I keep thinking about, so I gotta do a quick thread 🧵