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The idea there is “news of the day” was created by the telegraph, which first made it possible to move decontextualized information over great distances at great speed. But “news of the day” is a figment of our imagination, it exists only because of communication speeds.

If it makes you a worse person (parent, neighbor, writer, whatever), it’s not success.  If starting a business makes you a worse person—if it stresses you out, if it tears your relationships apart, if it makes you bitter or frustrated with people—then it doesn’t matter how much money it makes or external praise it receives. It’s not successfu

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Every time you ask the AI to make a picture, it doesn’t really remember or know anything else it’s ever made. It has no will, it has no goals, it has no intention, no storytelling ability. All the ego and will and stories — that’s us. It’s just like an engine. An engine has nowhere to go, but people have places to go. It’s kind of like a hive mind ... See more

Jacob Horne: Right now, when we think about building marketplaces, everyone has the same view: it's a platform that's centrally controlled, which mean that there is a company that has power over it...with crypto we don't need that paradigm at all. Hyperstructure is a crypto protocol that is unstoppable, permission-less, free, and community-owned.

I think the New York Times is its own thing, it’s going to keep being successful, but there’s a huge swath of the rest of the publishing industry that is being disrupted and will continue to be disrupted. If you look at publishers that exist in the world, because the Internet lets you reach everything, there’s probably space for the very best publi... See more

Most consumers are simultaneously neophilic, curious to discover new things, and deeply neophobic, afraid of anything that is too new. The best hit makers are gifted at creating moments of meaning by marrying new and old, anxiety and understanding. They are architects of familiar surprises

Johan Cruyff on the limits of logic:

“What I know for certain is that the conclusions I would draw from experience are different from the ones based only on figures. Because if Lionel Messi scores three times out of every ten attempts, he might be criticized by someone who sees only the statistics for being just 30 per cent effective. I’d say: just ... See more

In the media and entertainment sector, this growth strategy allowed Netflix to create a global market made out of niche taste communities. Thanks to personalization, Netflix is able to reach the mass audience while keeping product differentiation in its entertainment portfolio. Just as my Netflix is not the same as yours, a single mass fashion bran... See more

“Mistakes aren’t a necessary evil. They aren’t evil at all. They are an inevitable consequence of doing something new.”