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Pixar's guide to storytelling https://t.co/B1J5ZxIGRa

This new reality is less about everyone transforming into their own brand or even becoming an independent contractor at the whims of a mercurial gig economy—it will be the very basis for life, or at least livelihood. It's the creation of a future in which we can never afford to stop working, or better yet, where work doesn’t actually feel like... See more

Telescopes are an extension of your ability to see; they’re an extension of your eyes. Hearing aids are an extension of your ability to hear. TVs are extensions of your eyes and ears; you can see and hear things going on on the other side of the globe that you never would have otherwise seen.

Amazon’s logistics play follows a common playbook that we’ve seen in other parts of Amazon’s business:

In Substack’s case, life in the “paid publishing platform” market was rough, because very few people thought they wanted it, and the people who did were locked up by switching costs from the complex systems they rigged together. But competing in the “newsletter platform” market was a dream in comparison. Hamish could email writers on Mailchimp and... See more

On Web3: There’s probably too much emphasis on the trustless nature and also being uncensorable. I think most people are actually very trusting and don’t mind trusting a third party, and I think also most people probably aren’t saying things that would need to be censored or removed from these centralized services.

By sharing your writing: “You’re putting signals out into the world that you earnestly think are accurate, but at the same time, you’re humbled by the fact that the actual wisdom of your readers is more intelligent than you are, but you become more intelligent as a result of their feedback” – David Perell

"There’s not much to be said about the period except that most writers don’t reach it soon enough."