The Internet is a new way to interact, so it’s only natural that 40 years after its invention, we will come up with digitally native ways to distribute and exchange value, unconstrained by legacy financial infrastructure.
Questions about how television shapes our culture have disappeared as television has become our culture. We rarely talk about television, rather what is on television.
Wikipedia may not be actively throwing up roadblocks to participation, but it’s “also OK with not everyone being an editor — the way a Mark Zuckerberg or Jack Dorsey would like all seven billion people in the world to be users of their platforms
Membership to the DAO can be gated or not. You might need to purchase tokens to participate, be admitted by existing members, etc. Or it could be totally open.
The opportunity is in moving curated content feeds away from their never-ending-now orientation and towards more goal-oriented interfaces. People should be able to find whatever content they want on their terms and not be beholden to when the curator decides to publish.
If we’re going to talk about ‘the future of strategy’ then we are going to have to talk about how relegating strategy to the supply of disposable ‘insights’ and ‘propositions’ for other people’s creative processes is to fundamentally misunderstand the nature of strategy.
Everyone wants to decouple time from money.
The problem? It's an extremely unpredictable way to make a living. For every successful creator, there are thousands who make nothing or almost nothing.
So, how do you make the unpredictable, predictable? Here's what I learned: