What follows is intended as a framework to understand how the properties of NFTs might make them particularly useful—or useless—in our own daily lives. NFTs are special, I believe, for two reasons: they correlate to our own unique traits as biological organisms, and they allow us to turn nearly any good into an investment with resale value.
One of the areas I am most passionate about as an investor and consumer is “precision wellness” — the shift from products focused on content and community to those which also incorporate deeper tech elements like passive and more accurate biometric sensing, smarter algorithms employed to drive precision treatment and nutrition, more immersive exper... See more
lurking is a feature not a bug it's actually part of the Goodreads business model - said 90% of our content is written by 10% of our people and that's that's by design so most people can just use Goodreads to read reviews read discussions find lists that have been created by other people
First, some background. I ran search ads at Google for over a decade, and I could see the inexorable pressure to take up more and more space with ads. It’s one of those things where there's just so much money to be made that people come up with cleverer and cleverer theories to justify why it’s okay.
I wanted to dedicate the first Water & Music DAO update to exploring the role of emergence in DAO onboarding design — specifically rethinking the term “gamification” to support more open-world, self-directed narrative- and skill-building paths for DAO community members.
This friction to comment, not only selects for higher quality users and lowers the need for moderation, but also creates “buy-in”, which reduces churn without limiting their funnel of users. MAUs just reached 202mn, +55% YoY and “official members” who passed the exam reached 103mn, +51% YoY.