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I’ve tended to think of social networks as being built by people assembling a graph of people bottoms up, but perhaps I’ve been too narrow-minded. TikTok might not qualify by that definition, but it feels social, with FYP as village matchmaker.
Eugene Wei • American Idle — Remains of the Day
Well, then, and this is going to sound crazy, we increase the challenge level. We give you a really challenging goal: hit Inbox Zero without ever touching the mouse. This balances your perceived skill with the perceived challenge, thus resulting in flow.
Rahul Vohra • How to build great products with game design, not gamification
David Mamet Memo to "The Unit" Writing Staff
David Mamet's memo provides guidelines for the writing staff of the TV show "The Unit" regarding the importance of drama, storytelling, and creating engaging scenes that advance the plot.
screencraft.orggreat writing style. ALL CAPS. shouting on the page.
The Future of Social
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What we need is social media made entirely for the purpose of revealing the truth. As the French investor Xavier Faure said: “We need a trust social network. Where we don’t signal what we like, but what we vouch for.”
Mehdi Yacoubi • It’s Time For a Media Revolution: The GitHub Model of Truth
The most competent people I know are pretty good at basically anything they put their minds to, because they just design a process and run it. I think this is largely mental and emotional—the hardest part isn’t figuring out the steps, it’s enduring the psychological discomfort of doing them and then adapting.
Blockchain developers believe that this time they’ve found a structural answer to recentralization, but I tend to doubt it. An interesting question to ask is what the next locus for centralization and control might be.
Tim O’Reilly • Why it's too early to get excited about Web3
