Making things is hard and I feel like that’s the most useful thing to say about it. You have to try to be consistent, you have to practice constantly, you have to read, and you can’t make yourself be interested in topics you aren’t interested in. And you have to accept that it’s always going to be challenging. My friend said this about her work,... See more
Trying something new on the @naval podcast.
Sponsorships where our guests get all the revenue.
Thx to @eightsleep for being the first to try this out.
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Major social platforms today are noisy. People have found refuge in groups (iMessage, Fortnite worlds and group chats). If Facebook is Walmart, tools and communities like Discord (ie:gamers) or Public.com* (ie: casual stock traders) are boutique stores
"When Patreon talks about how 'the system is broken,' they're talking specifically about advertising models on YouTube, Facebook and Instagram," Austin Robey, co-founder of Ampled, tells me. "When we [Ampled] talk about a system being broken, it's not just ad models — it's the whole, underlying economic operating system on which startups are built.... See more
There isn’t much that blockchains enable that would be impossible to implement in a web2 way. It wouldn’t be trustless and decentralized—but the benefits of decentralization are way too abstract and vague to compel most people.
Enter “The Hunter Economy” — a whole class of startups that'll be built to incentivize & reward early adopters both economically & socially. They'll exist for discovering new products, new people, and new ideas.