Vadik Marmeladov's Codes of Practice:
1. Wear the uniform
2. Think long term (like 30 years from now)
3. Build stories and languages, not things
4. Create your own universe (or join ours)
5. Collect samples
6. Be a sample for somebody else... See more
The broader trend here is the disaggregation of work. Younger people are more distrustful of institutions and “traditional” careers—having been burned by both the Great Recession and the Covid-19 economic crisis—and are turning to freelance work.
In any context where there's a coordination game that has existed for long enough, there's likely a conception of legitimacy. And blockchains are full of coordination games. Which client software do you run? Which decentralized domain name registry do you ask for which address corresponds to a .eth name? Which copy of the Uniswap contract do you... See more
This helped us continuously increase our retention over the years, making Duolingo more fun and sticky. Every screen in our products is obsessed over many times by many people. You can see this throughout the product, where every screen takes Duolingo design principles seriously: every screen will have minimal text, be gamified, simple and... See more
I worry about where the workers no longer needed in manufacturing will find employment. For thosemwho look to government for solutions, the most likely answer is support payments designed to guarantee
More than 2,000 books are dedicated to how Warren Buffett built his fortune. Many of them are wonderful. But few pay enough attention to the simplest fact: Buffett’s fortune isn’t due to just being a good investor, but being a good investor since he was literally a child. As I write this Warren Buffett’s net worth is $84.5 billion. Of that, $84.2... See more
I’ve landed in Hong Kong after flying from Paris CDG, via London Heathrow. I now have to wait ~8 hours before I get my #COVID19 test results and thus have ample time to tweet about my experience.