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Cities and communities could be started and run like startups. Mayors would act more like CEO. CEOs tend to do a lot more convincing than coercing
Tim Ferriss • #506: Balaji Srinivasan on The Future of Bitcoin and Ethereum, How to Become Noncancelable, the Path to Personal Freedom and Wealth in a New World, the Changing Landscape of Warfare, and More
The new kings of tech claim to embrace Enlightenment values—but they are leading an antidemocratic movement, Adrienne LaFrance argues.
From the beginnings of what was then known as “TheFacebook,” when a young Mark Zuckerberg crowed about gaining access to his classmates’ information, the behavior of technocrats has... See more
instagram.comGabby Dizon: This shattering of the “geographic lottery” — where you win the location lottery merely by being born where you are, as opposed to showing your expertise from where you are — is now being helped along by the ongoing construction of crypto infrastructure.
future.a16z.com • 21 Experts on the Future of Expertise - Future
Just finished watching a podcast with @durov by @lexfridman.
It's refreshing to see a billionaire with strong technical skills.
Pavel explaining database sharding, end-to-end encryption and scaling to 1B+ users felt like a proper System Design interview... See more
The most dangerous man in tech isn't Elon Musk or Sam Altman.
It's the ex-CEO of Twitter that Musk fired.
He's been quietly building an AI empire that crushes Chat GPT-5.
Now he's about to unleash it.
Here's how Parag Agrawal just... See more
Trae argues that a lot of high-margin software businesses have no impact on society, and sometimes even a negative impact on society
- There are high-margin software companies that do important things, but many are related to advertising, capturing human attention, or creating obscure developer tools for enterprises
- These software companies pull
Patrick O'Shaughnessy • Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy on Apple Podcasts
Like Dopamine Labs, a Scarcity API would likely be net-evil. But it could be a big business. What if a new software company could programmatically “drop” new features only to users with sufficient engagement, or online at the time of an event? What if unique styles could be purchased only in a specific window of time?