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We can do a similar reductio ad absurdum for a micropayments-based web. Imagine if everything you do online required you to decide whether to make a tiny payment. Send an email? Pay a few cents. Read one more paragraph of an article? Pay a few cents. And so on. It would be an utter nightmare.

From now on, news can break into public consciousness without the traditional press weighing in. The news media can end up covering the story *because* something has broken into public consciousness via other means.

A poor Coordinape setup could mean contributors are incentivised to reward their friends and the most active Discord users, not those who actually provided meaningful value.

- Start online but quickly move offline (never pure-DTC, more like DTC as part of an omnichannel strategy)

Who we follow has a disproportionate effect on the relevance and quality of what we see on much of Western social media because the apps were designed that way.

People tend to know what makes them angry with more certainty than what might make them happy. Happiness is complicated because you keep moving the goalposts. Misery is more durable.

When it comes to platform vs tools, we prefer companies that start as a tool and then develop as a platform. These are startups that solve a complete business problem. They figure out how to get the data and then how to build a loop to learn from that data and create a user experience that solves a specific business problem.