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One of the first popular posts I wrote on my old blog was called “Do property rights increase freedom? (Japan edition)”. In it, I challenged the notion that assigning property rights to everything is consistent with human liberty, and cited some examples of how Japan made people pay for a lot of stuff that was free in America.
Noah Smith • Web3 had better not be Transaction Cost Hell
- Start online but quickly move offline (never pure-DTC, more like DTC as part of an omnichannel strategy)
Imad El Fay • Direct-to-Consumer opportunities in MENA
We’ve spilled a lot of ink over decentralizing social networks, but most users are still on centralized ones. Why hasn’t this changed already? There are three challenging problems with decentralizing social networks that have slowed adoption: scaling networks, decentralizing the name registry, and building novel social primitives. But for the first... See more
Varun Srinivasan • Sufficient Decentralization for Social Networks
A friend of mine recently felt dizzy and went to a US urgent care facility for blood tests. They were inconclusive and so he was sent to the nearby emergency room, which proceeded to do the same blood tests over again, because they were not able to access the urgent care facility's test results in their computer system. This was just plain wasted w... See more
Ben Goertzel • We Should Be Measuring Well-Being Catalysis, Not (trying and largely failing to measure) Economic Productivity
For the last decade the web has served up bite-sized information like cheap fast food. But the new web just might give us that nutritious gourmet meal we’ve been waiting for. And why not? For my part, I find the whole notion rather appetizing.
Ted Gioia • Has the Internet Reached Peak Clickability?
Everything starts slower on the data side. Building a valuable data asset takes time. Building the supporting infrastructure to actually deliver that data takes time. Sales cycles take time... The classic mistake people make is to see this and jump to the conclusion that early-stage data businesses don't work and will never work. But that's a... See more
Abraham Thomas • The Economics of Data Businesses
Quite clearly, inexpensive healthcare technology platforms such as telehealth, remote monitoring, and contact tracing will be an essential cornerstone of managing nursing homes going forward.
Michael A. Greeley • Pulling Back the Veil Surrounding Nursing Homes…
“Too much life enters this house,” Tillie Olsen, the writer, labor activist and mother of four girls, wrote in a letter to the poet Anne Sexton. “Up at 6, breakfast in shifts, lunch packing — then, if no one ill, or it isn’t a holiday, or any of the other ORs, the day for work until 4, sometimes longer or an evening — depending on housework load, s... See more