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you can have a great blog post that no one reads (or vice-versa) In most of our traditional media ecosystem, the product is terrible, but it has great distribution

Theoretically, governance should be structured in a way that both focuses on the primary users who are the most engaged in the community as well as the largest token holders. A simple mechanism for this may be that governance can be split past just token allocations and instead issued like multi-class stocks, whereby ownership and voting rights... See more

P&G used to have somebody in charge of what they called commercial innovation, which is broadly defined as selling your product in different ways, without fundamentally changing the product itself.

Rail travel is a great example of an industry that is ripe for commercial innovation.

In Germany they have the BahnCard. A 25, 50, or 100 BahnCard are... See more

Or take Twitter. As a medium, Twitter nudges its users toward ideas that can survive without context, that can travel legibly in under 280 characters. It encourages a constant awareness of what everyone else is discussing. It makes the measure of conversational success not just how others react and respond but how much response there is. It, too,... See more

What ChatGPT can do is a marvel. We are at the dawn of a new technological era. But it is easy to see how it could turn dark — and quickly. A.I. systems like this make the production and manipulation of text (and code and images and eventually audio and video) functionally costless. They will be deployed to produce whatever makes us most likely to

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Podcast listening audience will explode: Talk to anyone who’s been producing podcasts for at least a decade, and they’ll tell you they directly felt the impact of Serial’s success in 2014. Not only was Serial one of the most popular podcasts in history, but it brought millions of new listeners into the fold, many of whom stuck around and started... See more

Responding to my questions around efficacy, Sharon says he doesn’t feel “like we need to lean on the science” for the product to be successful. If people discover it and just think it’s delicious coffee, that’s good enough. Ready-to-drink coffee is already a growing market that needs quality competition.

Richard Chen: It’s very difficult for OpenSea to be forked and vampire attacked. That’s because 99% of the engineering work is off-chain (e.g. search and discovery, infrastructure) and thus can’t be forked.