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it's not desire or motivation or willpower, but positive CONTEXTS that are scarce
when you're in france you speak french, when you're in cambridge you go to class, when you're at a hackathon you code. we need to scale the right kinds of contexts to inculcate
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Anything in a DAO that can be automated should be. Anything that can’t be automated should be funded by the treasury. Treasuries help DAOs fund critical development, attract contributors, and grow their network. They are a vehicle to express the values of a DAO and increase its longevity.
Shreyas Hariharan • How DAOs should approach treasury management on Bankless
There’s also a category in the Silicon Valley lexicon called “zombies” — the companies that don’t quite become unicorns but aren’t failures either. They’re a dead weight on the investors’ balance sheets because, for one reason or another, nobody wants to buy them. Even if a company like that is making a profit and pleasing users, it can be worthles... See more
Nathan Schneider • Exit To Community | NOEMA
A typical game would spend millions of dollars on marketing and keep the majority of profits to itself; Axie spends nothing on marketing, but lets players keep most of the value created. That should lead to a stickier game and more opportunities for expansion.
Packy McCormick • What's on Deck for on Deck?
I share this sentiment (from Cristobal Valenzuela, founder of RunwayML), on AI and creativity:
... See moreThe most significant gap in AI research and art does not lie within the models themselves but rather in the approach to art. I have noticed a tendency to oversimplify the creative act. In a research setting, the goal is to control and measure variables, wh
AI Art and Creativity
A brilliant solution to the wrong problem can be worse than no solution at all: solve the correct problem
Don Norman • The Design Of Everyday Things
At its essence, good leadership isn’t about being indispensable; it’s about helping others be prepared to possibly step into your shoes—giving them access to your own decision making, identifying the skills they need to develop and helping them improve, and, as I’ve had to do, sometimes being honest with them about why they’re not ready for the ne
... See moreRobert Iger • The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years a…
Paper accelerated the spread of ideas. It was great for memes.
Clive Thompson • Social media is keeping us stuck in the moment
First, I believe VR will be a major computing platform, as or more significant than the phone and PC were. Facebook should sell about 10 million Oculus Quests this year. The headset will continue to get smaller, lighter, higher res, more powerful, and with many more and better apps. This will drive exponential growth the same way it did with PCs an... See more