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A better, built-in application flow and onboarding experience – Application submission, review, and approval, as well as a better, more productized onboarding experience should be native to the platform to keep membership organized.

Bitcoin is the first example of an organizational structure that has the beneficial characteristics of the firm (minimizing transaction costs, aggregating capital and mindshare, and providing job security for contributors) combined with some new characteristics:

When brains of people on psychedelics are imaged, activity in the Default Mode Network (DMN) has been shown to be diminished

So it’s fitting that exactly a decade later, we’ve come to another watershed moment. Software has eaten the world, and now it’s a commodity. It’s not about the technology anymore. The era of the engineer has ended; the era of the curator has begun.

YouTube is a near infinite video library, where seemingly everything that’s ever happened in the world is available to be watched over and over again. But viewing the video is only one part of the consumption experience. There’s also the discussion, the commiseration, the reaction about the video — the proverbial water cooler moment — that is also ... See more

As we graduate beyond the intent-driven model of e-commerce—marked by table-like grids of products, filters, and search bars, there are opportunities to create new experiences that promote the sense of serendipity and fun of shopping in the real world. Indeed, as Ada points out below, Pinduoduo considers itself part e-commerce platform, part entert... See more

The technology exists – but what do we want from it?

The ability to build your own audience on your own terms is killing gatekeepers everywhere