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Securing the world’s assets: $1 – 10T

Intelligence and capability are not enough. There must be the joy of doing something beautiful. Govindappa Venkataswamy

Diseases have global networks of stakeholders: Imagine a new insulin treatment funded, governed, and owned by diabetics. Our marketplace connects researchers with patients to enable this.

Dunbar's work itself suggests that a community size of 150 will not be a mean for a community unless it is highly incentivized to remain together.

“We are training our brains to be in a constant state of hyper-alertness, always thinking about what could be happening somewhere else and feeling the urge to check in and see. While this kind of behavior was advantageous during earlier phases of our species’ evolution — it helped us avoid predators and find prey in times of scarcity, for example —... See more

Forecasters have no choice but to base their judgments on models, be they complex or informal, mathematical or intuitive.  Models, by definition, consist of assumptions: “If A happens, then B will happen.” In other words, relationships and responses. But for us to willingly employ a model’s output, we have to believe the model is reliable. When I

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More fundamentally, though, for both music and books, most of the arguments and questions are music industry questions and book industry questions, not tech or software questions. Spotify is suing Apple over the App Store commission rules, but otherwise, all the Spotify questions are music questions. Why don’t artists make more from streaming? Ask... See more

The apparent limitation of the ad-supported media business model is that there will never be enough traffic to satisfy the beast. But while subscription revenue is stickier and gives creators more runway and short-term security, eventually the flame that started any new project will be extinguished. A new muse will need to be found.