Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
Jaron Lanier’s critique of the “hive mind” appears in his book You Are Not a Gadget,
Steven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From
The other obvious problem with today’s internet is the economic structure. Chris Anderson wrote a famous essay called “The Long Tail” back in 2004 that predicted the internet would make media businesses less hit-driven and improve the economics for niche creative people. He was right in one sense: the internet created many more niche communities an... See more
Chris Dixon • Words With Web 3’s King: An Interview With Chris Dixon
Because in the digital age we can replicate and spread them at virtually no cost, artificial scarcity must be imposed upon them in order to keep them in the monetized realm.
Charles Eisenstein • Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition
One of the interesting alternatives to this is Urbit, which is trying to build a network in which identity exists from the start, and is neither free nor monopolized. One of Urbit's principles is that users own their data, and while they can use third-party services, they're sharing their data with services, not using a login to access information ... See more
Byrne Hobart • The Promise and Paradox of Decentralization
Today almost all creative work is digitized and essentially rented — lowering payouts, devaluing work, and redirecting the lion’s share of rewards to the platforms hosting the work rather than the creators themselves.
Yancey Strickler • The old shit doesn't work anymore
No “cult leader” takes advantage of our psychological drives quite like The Algorithm, which thrives on sending us down rabbit holes, so we never even come across rhetoric we don’t agree with unless we actively search for it.