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This goes well beyond smart contract structures. Why is it that Elon Musk can sell an NFT of Elon Musk's tweet, but Jeff Bezos would have a much harder time doing the same? Elon and Jeff have the same level of ability to screenshot Elon's tweet and stick it into an NFT dapp, so what's the difference? To anyone who has even a basic intuitive underst... See more

Vitalik Buterin • The Most Important Scarce Resource is Legitimacy

Over the past 50 years, the number of American malls grew almost twice as fast as the U.S. population, to the point that in 2015, the U.S. had 10 times more shopping space per capita than Germany. Such abundance makes no sense in the age of Amazon.

The Atlantic • The Pandemic Will Change American Retail Forever

Stop trying to be “balanced.” Balanced people don’t change the world , nor are they particularly interesting. Be yourself, embrace the highs and lows, live a little.

chrisguillebeau.com • 36 Ways to Live Differently

Research analyzing historical US patent data has proven inventions are rarely if ever, created from scratch. They are almost always a combination of research and ideas that already exist. Relatedly, Paul Romer, an economist who has spent his career researching economic growth, has found economic growth does not come from new resources - it comes fr... See more

Maria Salamanca • Remix Culture: Jumpstarting Creativity

Gone are the days of needing to be blessed by a particular art critic or granted a degree from a particular art school. Sure, “signal” from particular collectors and marketing by the artist still drives value, but the equal opportunity across the globe for any talented artist to “mint” a piece of work on a particular marketplace and be discovered i... See more

Scott Belsky • The Furry Lisa, CryptoArt, & The New Economy Of Digital Creativity | by Scott Belsky | Feb, 2021 | Medium

We’ve made access to this data easily readable and coupled it with a powerful analytics tool, all directly accessible for free on our website. This means that anyone can look at human readable data from the blockchain and turn it into dashboards with informative charts in a matter of minutes. You don’t need to be a developer nor have a fat stack of... See more

Dune Analytics • The revolution will not be reported quarterly

Building a business model on data lock-in seems not only bad, but pointless now? Content is superabundant, so what are you locking in, exactly? There’s always more where that came from.

Are social graphs even a moat? Perhaps more than data, but TikTok proves you don’t need a dense social graph to serve up interesting content. What if you can bootstr

Gordon Brander • LLMs and information post-scarcity

How do you know when to break into a conversation in a virtual meeting without interrupting someone else? How do you re-construct the aimless but essential conversations that happen during a Friday casual demo hour with food? The esprit de corps of a well-constructed all hands that fires everyone up? And I’ve never seen anyone conduct a productive ... See more

Sriram Krishnan • Whimsical ideas for 2020 - Part 1

Of course, smartphones, by themselves, don’t force you to stop hanging out in person. But there are several reasons they reduce it. First, they’re a distraction — the rise of smartphones was also the rise of “ phubbing ”, i.e. when people go on their phones instead of paying attention to the people around them. Second, phones provide a behavioral