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- Some believe that decentralization requires the entire social network to be on a blockchain. This is unnecessary and even undesirable. Social networks generate petabytes of data every year, which can be very expensive to store on-chain. Blockchains also make it difficult to delete data forever, which is a desirable feature for users. A network desi... See more
from Sufficient Decentralization for Social Networks by Varun Srinivasan
- Drive-by management is when the manager comes by a group of people having a discussion. They throw requests, change mandates, and ideas around like bullets, create confusion, panic, chaos, and when they leave, they leave a bloody mess behind.
from Managing people by Andreas Klinger
- If the primary tool of one’s financial life is the checking account, what’s missing right now is a layer of collaborative tools that live on top of our primary accounts. These tools could allow us to spend, lend, borrow, save and trade together. This is an area of enormous opportunity.
from On Multiplayer Fintech by Braid
- DAOs can also be used to fund public goods on the internet. An interesting recent example is the Ethereum Name Service (ENS), which is essentially a blockchain-based name service analogous to DNS that maps human-friendly names (“cdixon”) to human-unfriendly names (IP addresses, blockchain public keys, etc). ENS has been around since 2017 and has be... See more
from "Let's Run The Experiment": A conversation with Chris Dixon about DAOs and the future of organizations online by Chris Dixon
- Some of you might have read my previous article, Against an Increasingly User Hostile Web. In it, I argue that we are replacing an open web that connects and empowers with one that restricts and commoditises people. I talk about how the modern web of surveillance, bloat and walled gardens is at odds with the open web that I love.
from Rediscovering the Small Web by Parimal Satyal
Future Design, Seminar 1
- Now imagine the impact open source could have if people weren’t just incentivized by status or high-paying jobs, but also by value creation via tokens.
from The two biggest critiques of web3, analyzed by Nathan Baschez
- In April, Axie did about $670k in revenue.
from What's on Deck for on Deck? by Packy McCormick
- The world’s biggest technology companies and social media platforms are all beginning to embrace audio as a core feature. Apple, Amazon, and Google all have their own voice assistants (Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant, respectively), and Twitter rolled out audio tweets as a core feature this past year. Twitter is also currently testing out a new A... See more
from The state of sound in 2020 and beyond by Talia Goldberg