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Today, the meme has evolved. Now, *every tech company wants to become a ~~bank~~ social network.* And, these social networks are going multi-dimensional.

Anyone can say no to bad ideas, but only a focused person can say no to good ideas.

The new digital economies with the greatest upside also massively favour Caucasian and Asian men to the detriment of all women and Latino and Black men. Participation in these economies requires STEM skills far more commonly found within white and Asian communities. Consequently, the technology and the platforms have been built by and for... See more

In early 2019, for example, the founder of the Shanghai electric-car company NIO transferred 50 million shares into a “user trust.” While the founder retains voting rights over the shares, the trust enables its members to help decide how to use a portion of the company’s eventual profits. This was not an act of charity; in the disclosure documents,... See more

All of this has been a long way of saying: if you’re forcing yourself to eat frogs all day, maybe you need a vacation, or better pay, or some help organizing your life. But maybe you what you really need is to stop eating frogs.

What Pinterest was to images, TikTok is becoming for short-form video. Thanks to its infamous algorithm, the Bytedance-owned video platform now has over a billion global monthly active users, and kids and teens reportedly spend an average of 91 minutes watching TikTok per day (versus an average of 56 minutes per day on YouTube). TikTok creators are... See more

The final edge we have over language models is that we can prove we're real humans by showing up IRL with our real human bodies. We can arrange to meet Twitter mutuals offline over coffee. We can organise meetups and events and conferences and unconferences and hangouts and pub nights.

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Markets for Lemons and the Great Logging Off, Lars Doucet

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Which means that if you outfit your character with, say, “Nike sneakers” in a game, it would be easy for Nike to build a Web3 connector on Nike.com that would automatically pre-populate your cart with a pre-paid order for the physical version of those same sneakers, shipped to your door.