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First, there are more ways than ever for people in search of belonging to do things together, and the trend is accelerating. We are seeing new communication services designed for people to interact with each other, rather than just the void of social media.

Replicating everything AWS or Azure or Google Cloud can do on a blockchain isn’t redundant because the decentralized collective “ownership” and governance of blockchain networks supports security, privacy, stability, and scalability features that Web 2.0 applications running on centralized corporate clouds can’t replicate because they are centraliz... See more

Failure is relative, and yet our idea of it is highly influenced by the perception of other people’s achievements—especially those who we consider (or once considered) our creative peers. To avoid falling into the trap of judging your own achievements against others’, honor your individuality at a microscopic level.

There seems to be an open debate on whether the current system of peer-review actually weeds out papers correctly. This experiment re-submitted 12 already approved papers and 89% of the peer reviewers said the paper shouldn’t be published. More recently hundreds of sham papers managed to get through the process as scammers posed as guest editors.

With a digital trading trading Moment on NBA TopShot as an example , you have all the fun, none of those risks and the value is still set by the same laws of supply and demand.

The relationship between creator and consumers is more valuable than its transactional currency (ie. content).

One possible resolution that people have discussed is a new "streaming" publisher, similar to iTunes or Spotify, which offers a catalog of all papers for a flat fee. But a more radical approach would be a crypto Sci-Hub, one that might even offer enough financial incentive to legacy publishers to flip them over to open access for their entire archi... See more