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Paul Romer
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In the language of Ben Thompson, Substack has two choices. It can become a full fledged aggregator, build network effects and community, personalized content and so forth, but risk the moral purity of being one of the last ad-free algorithm-free corners of the internet, or it can become a platform, provide valuable infrastructure and flexible prici... See more
Applied Divinity Studies • [Guest post] How Substack Became Milquetoast
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Tripp Lanier • This Book Will Make You Dangerous: The Irreverent Guide For Men Who Refuse to Settle
Along with @rjdrost, @NamikMuduroglu, we spent the past two months writing this position paper https://t.co/fX0HoeAenh... See more
In March 2020, a Silicon Valley engineer named Anatoly Yakovenko launched a new and better blockchain that offered a solution to maybe Bitcoin’s biggest weakness as a means of exchange: it was way too slow. Bitcoin could only validate seven transactions a second. The new Solana blockchain promised to process up to sixty-five thousand transactions a
... See moreMichael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
Ezra: Even if that's true, if Bitcoin were made by someone who had control over it, if the ownership structure were different, they would try to change that sooner.
Ezra Klein • Opinion | A Crypto Optimist Meets a Crypto Skeptic (Published 2021)
As a libertarian who holds the New Testament as a seminal text, Thiel seeks to increase individual freedoms while preventing runaway Mimetic violence.