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Numerous startups are attempting to help creators set up their standalone, owned properties online; earn more from fewer, truer fans; and lessen their dependence on social media platforms. But unless we radically change the foundation of the creator economy—how creators find and connect to a community in the first place—these solutions are incremen... See more
Li Jin • The Creator Economy Is in Crisis. Now Let’s Fix it.
In K-12 education, it’s nearly impossible to scale metrics of teacher efficacy without very short term measurement of student performance on standardized tests that don’t map very well to the long term value of education.
Andrew Kortina • Metrics, Incrementalism, and Local Maxima
Visualizing the Economics of Coffee in One Chart
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It is well understood that the internet has created extraordinary abundance in information and products. Whereas once, consumers might have been restricted to their town paper for information and local mall for apparel, they can now find functionally unlimited amounts of both online.
Mario Gabriele • Audience and Wealth, Part I
On one hand, this gives us a sense of how big the opportunity is to create the infrastructure to support the tens of millions of people now or soon to be working from home. On the other (more troubling) hand, this data paints a distressing picture of how many people don’t have “portable” professions and have little recourse until things get back to... See more
Venture Desktop • Economic Oceans and an Alternative Trade Route
When you chase perfection, when you make perfection the ultimate goal, do you know what you’re doing? You’re chasing something that doesn’t exist. You’re making everyone around you miserable.
You’re making yourself miserable. Perfection? There’s about five times a year you wake up perfect, when you can’t lose to anybody, but it’s not those five t
... See moreAndre Agassi • Open: An Autobiography
-Young people are comfortable forging online-only or online-first relationships.
Shripriya Mahesh • A Sense of Belonging
The need for focused and embedded workers will never go away, but this group of people will be much smaller in web3 than ever before. Software, and smart contracts to an even larger degree, enable small groups of people to create outsized impacts. Instagram was famously acquired by Facebook for $1B with a team of just 13 people.