sari
@sari
making Sublime — for you and for me.
sari
twitter.com
You can go out on the internet, and you can find your audience. And you can build a business, and create a product, and build wealth, and make people happy just uniquely expressing yourself through the internet.
Naval Ravikant • The Internet Has Massively Broadened Career Possibilities
Speaking only for myself, I find it magical: when I was a kid, I never thought the internet would last this long, or be able to do this many things. I am still in love with the idea that I can carry the whole world in my pocket. I am a hopeful, happy cyborg.
Bijan Stephen • There is no "us"
The first advantage is an increase of experimentation in form.
Clay Shirky • Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators
None of that is so surprising—it’s hard to earn four-fire-emoji status without having already built up a reputation within established institutions.
cjr.org • The Substackerati
I’ve given up on manifesting, and assigning purpose, and turning over every stone for meaning, because acknowledging the unfairness of the awfulness makes room for the unfairness of the goodness.
Mari Andrew • It’s Unfair and It Doesn’t Make Sense
To summarize this view, the foundation of the human economy is built on bartering and swapping for mutual benefit: it makes us human, and let us specialize. Money and coinage evolved as an abstract representation of scarcity, in order to facilitate that bargaining. And then credit and banking evolved on top of that.