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As humans, we're evolutionarily wired to prioritize short-term gain. Hunter gatherers had no use for five-year plans, and those instincts are still within us. Combine that with our current economic system, ad-driven business models, and algorithmic social media platforms, all of which visibly reward cynical short-term games, and you've got the perf... See more

For the past couple of years Google has tested highlighting content on a web page based on clicking on a featured snippet from the Google search results. This was being tested both on desktop and mobile.

Satoshi made Bitcoin decentralized to solve a specific problem: that previous forms of Internet money kept getting shut down. A decentralized form of money is resilient to insolvency, attack, or censorship. But decentralization wasn’t itself the point. It was just a means to an end. The point was to make a form of Internet money that worked!

Consumer Transactional: ~30% is GOOD, ~50% is GREAT

Last year they were serving 50,000 customers / day through their platform and did approximately $500 million in GMV (the value of the orders placed), this year they are on track to do $3 billion (with a B) and expect to end the year at a revenue run rate that may top $100 million (yes, I asked for permission to publish these numbers).

Regardless of whether or not we’re formally making art, we are all living as artists. We perceive, filter, and collect data, then curate an experience for ourselves and others based on this information set. Whether we do this consciously or unconsciously, by the mere fact of being alive, we are active participants in the ongoing process of creation

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From digital storefront solutions for brands to create interfaces to sell their NFTs (ex: Metaplex, Bitski, Nftify) to community engagement platforms that help brands sustain engagement (ex: Afterparty, Coordinape) and fuller stack solutions (ex: RareCircles, Mojito), there is a ton of innovation happening in the space to support web3 adoption by b... See more

"The question that we've had for so long — where the f*ck is the money going to come from? — is finally clearer," says Mader. "Where we were seeing dwindling returns elsewhere, the dots are starting to connect here and I really see a future with it and a way to grow it."

We have top-end universities, yes, but with the capacity to teach only a microscopic percentage of the 4 million new 18-year-olds in the U.S. each year, or the 120 million new 18-year-olds in the world each year.