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This new thing acknowledges our primal drive for both autonomy and belonging. It is grounded in the well-being, both financial and emotional, of people, not a shallow culture that glorifies individualism while downplaying how the resulting self-reliance has deeply tarnished the human spirit.

Because Shopify runs the websites of these merchants, it may be able to more accurately track users bouncing between sites and build machine learning algorithms to calculate lookalike audiences for its stores. It may also be able to persist a customer's payment info across stores to make the secondary checkout faster. In short, Shopify has the... See more

No versioning, imagery, models look nothing like me, subscription options (not offered), absurd descriptions, sizing is still a mess, styles are presented as different products, pricing.

I wrote a few weeks ago about how the nature of our social networks and content platforms leads to cultural sameness via supercharging fad culture. But increasingly the social networks and content platforms themselves suffer from the same effect.

Anish Agnihotri built PartyBid, for example, while a student at the University of Waterloo, and has more demand for his talents than any degree could bring him (he’s now an associate at crypto VC, Paradigm)

The macro thesis that I’ve talked to a bunch is this idea that value is shifting from IRL meatspace into our virtual lives.

One mechanism to coalesce a nexus of smart contracts is a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO). You can think of it like a shared treasury among the members, with hard coded rules that govern how funds can be disbursed. DAOs can be used for any number of collective pursuits, much like an LLC can be formed to pool resources for any number of... See more