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“Why is this so hard? Because you’re utterly habituated to steady progress—to completing things, to producing, to solving. When progress is subtle or slow, when there’s no clear way to proceed, you flinch away. You redirect your attention to something safer, to something you  can  do. You jump to implementation prematurely; you feel a compulsion

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- PLEDGE TO SUPPORT BLACK DESIGNERS AND BUSINESSES

As information becomes more accessible, news cycles often struggle to keep one topic in focus for long. A political scandal on Monday that would have rocked the nation for weeks in decades past might be out of the news cycle by Tuesday now.

“(Platforms) need to either offer some way to monetize that content on-platform, or… they'll become just a promotional hub, where people essentially advertise the content that they're monetizing on other platforms” - Josh Constine

One of the most useful concepts for understanding why social networks so often drive us to despair is context collapse: taking multiple audiences with different norms, standards, and levels of knowledge, and herding them all into a single digital space to coexist. Predictably, this regularly leads to conflict — and, at the scale of an entire... See more

Voice synthesis technology may be the solution. A new startup would help existing podcasters create “voiceprints” based on existing content. Then, within the system, advertisers could bid to target anonymized individuals based on their demographics but divorced from the podcast they were listening to. Staking creators: creators to serve as curators... See more

That’s a different business than dropping off bulk salad orders at office buildings, but it might also prove to be a bigger idea.