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When influencers can monetize, platforms benefit:

Avery Segal • Making a Living Off 'Likes': The New Influencer Paradigm | Andreessen Horowitz

This isn’t new to culture — this is culture. The difference is that software now mediates a significant share of our experience within and between worlds. And software that affords presence or spatial awareness — from a simple video chat app to a more immersive game-like product — can establish a type of proximity between individuals, or even... See more

Marc Geffen • The Minimum Viable Metaverse

“When everyone’s got skin in the game, it creates a new dynamic, as opposed to everyone being able to say what they want and critique everything without consequence,” Drew Austin, a technology investor who owns three Bored Apes and co-owns two others, told me. That sense of community has been missing from the Internet, according to Bored Ape Yacht... See more

The New Yorker • Why Bored Ape Avatars Are Taking Over Twitter

Below are 3 categories of social products that are innovating to deliver new types of digital-first, omnichannel ready, social experiences.

Mercedes Bent • Omnichannel Social: How the Pandemic Transformed Social Products

Instead of being overwhelmed by the apparent uncertainty in such a problem, start to ask what things about it you do know.

Douglas W. Hubbard • How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business

the start of an idea

Let’s not forget that just 15 years ago, in order to reach an audience, you had to go through a hyper-selective process where one person had the power to decide if you’d be allowed to speak to the general public.

Hugo Amsellem • Mapping the Creator Economy

Don’t Spend Too Much Time In The Boiler Room

Whenever stress, anxiety, or a down and uninspired mood linger past a day or two, John Mayer says he’s realized it’s typically due to “spending too much time in the boiler room,” as he refers to the inside of his head. “The inside of your head is a very subjective, highly interpretive, world,” Mayer... See more

SIX at 6: The Boiler Room, 20 Years of Not Writing, Nightmares of Failure, Expectations of Success, Chair Upholstery, and The Delusion of Perfection - Billy Oppenheimer

reminds me of Ray Bradbury’s “Don’t Think”

Agency is the capacity to act. Gaining agency is gaining the capacity to do something different from the rigid path of events that simply happen to you. Remarkable people typically go off-script early, usually in more than one way. Carnegie becoming a telegraph message boy is one opportunity; asking how to operate the telegraph is another. He was