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As gaming becomes the on-ramp to digital worlds and crypto economies, this stigma will fade. We’ll stop thinking of gaming as games with an overt objective, and start thinking of gaming companies as 1) social networks, and 2) economies.
Rex Woodbury • Digital Economies, Gaming, and IP Legos
Horizontal LLMs will lose .
Rob May • 5 Contrarian AI Theses For Early Stage Investors
Some rare companies innovate on all three sides of the creator triad, crossing creation tools, distribution and monetization: Roblox, for example, provides accessible tools in Roblox Studio; allows developers to have their experiences discovered by the community; and shares earnings with developers via the virtual currency Robux, which underpins a ... See more
Rex Woodbury • The Creator Manifesto 🎨
Fuller is something of a philosopher of digital design; his podcast “Scratching the Surface” canvasses experts in the field. In the past decade, he argues, a “user-centered” approach to design has been replaced by what he has taken to calling a “corporation-centered” approach. Rather than optimizing for the user’s experience, it optimizes for the e... See more
Kyle Chayka • Why I Finally Quit Spotify | the New Yorker
Taking a more collective-first approach could provide greater financial opportunities and stability, but the toolset is thin.
Braid • On Multiplayer Fintech
“The fundamental thing that Linear did differently was this idea of being highly opinionated,” she says. “They understood that, the truth is, most companies have no idea what the right software development process is,” Zhan says. “The subset who do would much prefer focusing on building their product than dedicating time to shaping this process—cu
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