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Will Mannon on Substack
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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
Brian Flynn • Reputation in Web3: Ships Built on the Great Flood
What am I afraid might happen?
Adam Smith • Slaying Your Fear: A guide for people who grapple with insecurity
reject the premise of the American Dream, and instead define a new Black American reality of ownership, excellence, and communal obligation.
John Graham • Plantation Theory: The Black Professional's Struggle Between Freedom and Security

Those simulations – played out over thousands of iterations, millions of transactions, and billions of dollars – tell us that greed can be good, that speculation can serve a purpose, that memes have value, and that people are willing to spend money to be part of something bigger than themselves (particularly if there’s the potential for a return).
Packy McCormick • The Laboratory for Complex Problems
In the Web2 era, platforms like Twitter and Facebook ran powerful but temporary versions of the “commoditize the complement” strategy early in their growth phase. By giving away their products and APIs for free, the platforms were able to attract invaluable social graphs and user data, which in turn helped attract an ecosystem of third-party develo... See more