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Totaling $250B in the US alone, alcohol is a massive business. But recent developments have signaled disruption:

FB’s has an interface problem, not an algorithm problem… because people won’t affirmatively click on the things they actually deep down want to watch

Namely, some of its key properties include an ecosystem where, by default, whatever you create is instantly inter-operable with anything else on-chain, and where there’s a permanent public record of ownership of things like tokens, contracts, policies and a range of other assets.

As Web 2.0 companies began to deeply understand the powerful potential of their innovations — the game-ish reaction buttons, the follower graph, the algorithmic ‘newsfeed’ — they became adept at a clever stratagem. Rather than committing to perpetual openness, they could offer new user tools or developer APIs and encourage the community to use them... See more

People lower their standards in an effort to move things along and get things off their desks. Don't do it. Fight that impulse every step of the way. It doesn't take much more mental energy to raise standards. Don't let malaise set in. Bust it up. Raising the bar is energizing by itself.