-Projects that raise money by selling NFTs effectively trade an asset for money that they put into their treasury. Projects that raise money by releasing social tokens, on the other hand, just mint money out of thin air. That means they earn money twice-over, both from the small portion of tokens they sell and from the larger portion of ones that... See more
The consequence of our content-addicted culture is non-stop diversion from having to come to grips with the big questions of reality, of life. The American social scientist Herbert Simon wrote: “The wealth of information means a dearth of something else—a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather... See more
Middlers do not want to be told they’re old and nearing the end of their life. Rather, they want to celebrate this new life stage and the freedom that comes with the gift of time.
“Radical transparency in blockchain could forever change the economics of a restaurant,” said Joey Rubin, owner of Parade, an experiential culinary agency, and resident FWB LA social chair. “If you can unfuck the finances of this stuff, you can have a real conversation about the reasons restaurants came to exist and how they were born.”
We tried to hire people who were particularly nice and generally happy...instead of trying to solve the culture problem we tried to hire people who were already happy.
I used to think of resourcefulness as a kind of practical intelligence, but I’ve recently started thinking of it as a combination of an energy state, an attitude, and an unexamined philosophy.