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Kurt, Dave and Chris:

First let me apologize for taking a couple of days to put this outline together. When I spoke to Kurt I was in the middle of making a Fugazi album1, but I thought I would have a day or so between records to sort everything out. My schedule changed unexpectedly, and this is the first moment I've had to go through it all. Apology

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Indeed, making the voting token non-transferable is a valid method for eliminating market noise as well as providing control over the system incentives.

In my experience, desperation is the single greatest advantage you have as a startup. It takes you down to the lowest level of detail.3 Desperation inspires creativity and intense focus. It is an essential ingredient to building great products and services.

DoNotPay is so magical because it uses software to help people do all of the things that they should be doing but don’t because they don’t know how, they forget, or it’s too much of a pain in the ass.

Where photos still represent most of us on social media today, they don’t have to. Kids are already happy to run around in Roblox as a boxy pumpkin with a rabbit as a hat, or in Fortnite in their Moisty Merman skin. Millions of adults have replaced their twitter profile pics with NFTs denoting an appreciation for pixel art or membership in cyberpun... See more

If we get big enough, there’s a real consideration on how we train the algorithm and what objective function we get or give it, and what content gets produced for it. We need to be very mindful of that because what I’d rather have is a world where we have more original content, more interesting content, and less of this gaming-the-algorithm content

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How to moderate live audio is still an open question. Facebook is getting better at moderating text and video content, particularly in the United States. But as a recent series in the Guardian has illustrated, policy enforcement tends to grow weaker the further removed the content is from Menlo Park.

Companies like Zoom that achieve massive growth and ubiquity lose one important competitive advantage: the ability to focus on a particular user. Recent events have forced the adoption of Zoom for use cases that it was not originally designed for. Teachers struggle to manage a classroom. Game nights with friends feel overly rigid. Working on a proj... See more