Every time you post a pic in your new kicks or answer the question, “Where’d you buy that dress?!” you’re influencing people’s purchasing decisions. Because it’s historically been hard to wrangle, track, and direct small amounts of influence, until now, you’ve done it out of the kindness of your heart. That’s very nice of you, but it causes a... See more
My most common behavior is to Actually Write the Notes. That’s why Roam needs to help me with the thought, ‘I don’t know where to put this.’ If it does that well, it makes the vast majority of my time spent in the app a breeze. If it does that poorly, it makes my experience so painful that I want to switch systems.
There are limits to how much the human brain can process. Dunbar’s number is the notorious limit for how many social relationships the human brain can manage, but “DAObar’s number” is the DAO version of that: how many DAOs can a person be meaningfully involved in? Each subsequent DAO involvement is an increase in the processing power needed to... See more
So far, curated consumer marketplaces are tied to a brand like Zippy Pantry, Bubble or Amazon. It's a huge engineering challenge to create a central ecommerce API similar to what Carted, Fast and a few others are building out. Additionally, there needs to be an easy solution to creating a self branded marketplace. So whilst a lot of people have... See more
This behavior will fundamentally not stop and it is far more valuable to suspend disbelief in order to reach a core understanding of the bull case, than play devil's advocate to tear down a partially flawed, overbought, or misunderstood asset.