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1/50 Thoughts on gaming economics, NFTs and the Metaverse.

Whereas Slack was clearly designed to be the home for one company and its employees -- each time you get invited to a new Slack workspace, you need to re-enter your email and go through the signup flow -- Discord was built for promiscuity. Discord users are expected to jump from server to server, and to slide into any other Discord user’s DMs.

Anyone who hasn’t stepped foot in one of these festivals might think “there’s no scarcity in digital art because you can right click save the jpeg.” But what the right clickers don’t get, is that this will be both technically and socially impossible in the metaverse, where digital art, avatars, land, etc. are all seamlessly tied to blockchain recei... See more

The term "gig workers" was coined by Uber drivers, delivery people, couriers and data labellers. But the term should go further and also include "experts" of their industry, and if you have the background, you can build a very niche platform around it.

Co-living network members will be able to travel the world with low switching costs. (Predictable revenue from subscriptions will enable this.)

What is consistent across all of these categories and vintages is that they offer place, programming, and a real sense of community and belonging to a generation of members who largely grew up on the internet. We are tribal, and these clubs allow us to be with our tribes.

How has writing online affected the relationships in your life?

I like this question because the answer is yes but probably not for the reason you’d think. There might be this idea that writing personally online could create more depth in your relationships, but I have actually found the opposite to the extent that when you share a lot online it so... See more

Labor can often be organized more efficiently in the context of community than it can in the context of a corporation.

As a consequence, there isn’t a “best sneaker”. What you perceive as “the best” isn’t based on objective attributes, it depends on who you are trying to imitate.