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Peer-to-peer networks are good at destroying but they are not necessarily good at building.  The internet is very good at tearing down hierarchies but it has not yet proven its ability to build governance systems.  You can build peer-to-peer networks, but can they take power and serve the productive roles that the hierarchies used to serv... See more

When fed a chunk of information, a computer processes it in the same way on each occasion, whether it’s been at work for five minutes or five hours, whether it is located in a fluorescent lit office or positioned next to a sunny window, whether it’s near other computers or is the only computer in the room. This is how computers operate.

But the same

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So the question is, how do you get to that scale? There are a million networks that died out before they ever achieved that scale.

“ There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by. A life of good days lived in the senses is not enough. The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less; time is ample and its passage sweet. Who would call a day spent reading a good day? But a life sp... See more

Utility is relatively easy to understand. If you can find the answer to your question on Quora or easily reach an old high school friend whose number you lost on Facebook, those products are providing you utility.

“One of the great tragedies of the last five years is that many of the world’s smartest people are no longer sharing their ideas in public” – David Perell