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- On podcast apps it’d be great if I could subscribe to podcast guests in addition to specific podcasts.
- 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 🧵
Crowdsourcing and Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAO)
- Personalized ads are one of those things where stated preference and observed preference are almost total opposites. No one thinks that they do, but people really enjoy being catered to.
Fun graphic on $META from the Rowan Street annual letter (a hedge fund that printed a 102.6% net return in 2023): Shows how non-linear the path to good returns can be and how conviction pays off. https://rowanstreet.com/post/rowan-street-2023-year-end-letter... See more“Where there is selection there is art.” —BH Liddell Hart.
- In a recent thread on crypto, I argued that crypto and tokens enabled the formation of businesses that heretofore could not be created. Some responded that cash could be used in place of tokens, and therefore the ‘innovation’ of crypto was not meaningful. I beg to differ.
Collective ownership, Coops, and User Owned Platforms and Crypto Tokens
- honestly people are starving for more collective experiences, not more siloed hyper-personalized things
so true
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@drinkdirtylemon is a DTC brand founded in 2015 that sells some pretty cool beverages in some pretty cool ways. A thread on the business and their pricing: