Network design comparison: Airbnb vs Crypto-Crypto networks experience a value plateau as new participants have less and less upside-Airbnb users and hosts gain more value when the network grows, regardless of when you joined
Increase your surface area for serendipity... To me, creating serendipity vehicles looks like h aving a low bar for sharing what you’re doing online. For example, if you are confused about an idea, consider writing a blog post about it.
This is the power of valuable NFTs: they are high in social capital and utility, and moving higher in entertainment. They hit the social network trifecta.
Then there are new shopping and buying models entirely, such as Stitch Fix’s human-and-algorithm-personalized recommendations, and Rent The Runway’s subscription rental concept, to compete with.
What risk are we radically underestimating as a species? What are we overestimating?
I think we’ve still underestimated the harms of scrolling. I am careful to say “scrolling” because I don’t think social media is itself a bad thing, nor do I think screens are uniformly bad. I think it’s specifically the act of scrolling, which forces us to ingest,... See more