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To make use of this shift, don’t obsess over the metaverse; obsess over the Metaversal Self. That is, over the powerful human needs consumers will seek to fulfil inside virtual worlds.

Fitness tracking is one of the Apple Watch’s most popular features, and this fall it is introducing sleep tracking for the Watch. When it launches, it will roll out to tens of millions of users. (Apple will likely soon pass 100 million cumulative Watch sales, if it hasn’t already.) Oura, meanwhile, is approaching 200,000 rings sold.

“Marc Andreessen was the guy that got me interested in ideas. Junior year in college, I was following Marc Andreessen on Twitter, and I remember thinking, I could either go to class, or I could read Marc Andreessen’s thoughts in my pocket.” – David Perell

The differentiator for the passion economy is that you, as the consumer, are looking for a very individual service and the person who is rendering that service is very important.

For the most part the big problems have been solved, and there were no crises except those that were invented by management to keep the company in yarak, a falconry term meaning when your falcon is superalert, hungry, but not weak, and ready to hunt.

The permissionless capitalist career: Labor → knowledge capital Knowledge capital → social capital Social capital → financial capital

There are several reasons to be skeptical of propertarian data reforms and how they conceptualize the problem of data extraction. The first is a pragmatic one: operationalizing the kind of complex and comprehensive micro-payments system suggested by these proposals at the scale they require may simply not be feasible or cost-effective