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Founded in 2013 as a late-night service for college students to order junk food, rolling papers and condoms, GoPuff has gone mainstream, and now offers 3,000 items ranging from over-the-counter medicine and laundry detergent to pet food and nail polish—all delivered in around 30 minutes for a flat $2 fee.

It’s one thing to predict how technology changes, but quite another to predict how it changes us.

“Who exactly are these people that you want to be admired by? Aren’t they the same people you are in the habit of calling crazy? And is this your life ambition, then—to win the approval of lunatics?”—Epictetus

Fun fact: Crypto inequality is *significantly worse* than traditional wealth inequality! The top 1% of Americans own 30.4% of total US Wealth. The top 1% of Crypto users own 80%+ of total Crypto Wealth. "Crypto makes us all owners" is a narrative being driven by crypto elites.

“What I need, what I am trying to build, is — I coin this phrase by analogy to a memory palace — an attention cottage . ... When I sit down in a chair with a book in my lap, a notebook at my side, and no screens within reach or sight, I am dwelling in my attention cottage.

The great artists and thinkers cultivate a systolic/diastolic rhythm, tension

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There’s one rule of thumb that’s proven true over and over again: the best version of every consumer product is the one that’s intrinsically social.