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We’re more likely to die the year we retire than we are during our last year of work.

Demystifying NFTs: (A thread)

LLMs do not tell you the answer to your question. They tell you “when people ask questions like that, this is what the answers that other people tend to give tend to look like” Over time, that difference may or may not narrow, depending on what kind of question you’re asking.

The other major kind of advertising is brand advertising. The biggest brand advertisers sell the most generic products like cleaning supplies and processed food. They take commodity products and try to create brand loyalty through emotion-driven advertising. Hence the importance of running repetitive TV and internet ads.

Being both imaginative and determined is a powerful combination because it's so rare — so many imaginative people are dreamy and ineffective, and so many determined people are merely energetic robots.

The public blockchain amounts to a single, massive users table for the entire Internet, and the next wave of distributed applications will be built on top of it.

Even this generation’s superstars rethink old norms. The 19-year-old TikTok star Josh Richards had flirted with being a brand ambassador for Red Bull. When I asked him why he passed, he looked at me quizzically—why, he wondered, should he be the vessel for someone else’s wealth creation? That’s the playbook for celebrities of yesteryear. Instead, R... See more

So, you’ve got a business that is starting to reach saturation on the subscription product, but since everything has to grow forever, it needs to find new revenue sources. And thus, the pivot to advertising has begun.