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Tipping, donations, and microtransactions. Since Twitch launched tipping in 2017, we’ve seen early signs that it’s catching on in the U.S., often via donation platforms or common P2P apps like Venmo and PayPal. Clash, for instance, is a short video platform similar to TikTok where tipping is a key revenue source for creators (and Clash takes a cut)... See more

The web’s first era was about information flowing freely—think Google giving you access to the world’s knowledge. Most of us were passive consumers in this era. The second era was the social web—Facebook, Instagram, Twitter. People began to create their own content, and that content became the lifeblood of the big platforms. We became active partic... See more

Unlike progressive decentralization, The Lean Token Design framework suggests that tokens shouldn’t have any complexity, but have some minimal viable utility to rally an early community. These tokens would be introduced early on in a community’s lifecycle along with an initial use case for the token to drive early demand. The framework also introdu... See more

Varda is a start-up that focuses on space manufacturing – their goal is to manufacture and build materials in space for use on Earth

You can go out on the internet, and you can find your audience. And you can build a business, and create a product, and build wealth, and make people happy just uniquely expressing yourself through the internet.

Designing in an AI World

AI will reduce today’s design jobs. This I feel strongly.

The value of many design jobs today is in visual translation. Someone has a picture in mind of what they want and hires a designer to make that picture real.

If that person can instead feed in a text file into an AI tool and say:  Show me a bunch of webpage option

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In the Web2 world, market infrastructure and market governance were bundled by platforms. Amazon, Ebay, Upwork, Uber, and other such marketplaces bundle both market infrastructure (in the case of Amazon, even physical infrastructure through FBA and Amazon Logistics) and market governance.

There are many people creating online in bad faith. If you want a shocking deep dive into some of these people, just check out the Coffeezilla YouTube channel.