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if people are so "exhausted" by the predictability and volume of meme culture, NFTs can be seen as a way of "professionalizing" memes and liberating ordinary people from having to care and participate
Rob Horningtwitter.comHistorical Inflection Points
Colossus • Universal Music Group: The Gatekeepers of Music
..unlike specialization, strong opinions don’t narrow down your options or grind against your identity as a generalist. Strong opinions allow for divergent, generative futures.
tomcritchlow.com • Rejecting Specialization
Secondly, your strengths to distribution increasingly get fragmented. So in the early days of streaming Spotify as the leader was the dominant platform, but we've seen not only other large leading streaming platforms develop and we can get into that dynamic because that's a very interesting part of the market as well, but we've now started to see... See more
Colossus • Universal Music Group: The Gatekeepers of Music
Note how different this sort of meaning making is from what we generally see on today’s web. The excitement here is in building complexity, not reducing it. More importantly note how meaning changes here. We probably know what the tweet would have “meant”, and what a blog post would have “meant”, but meaning here is something different. Instead of... See more
mikecaulfield • The Garden and the Stream: A Technopastoral
To develop great virality you must be focused on language. Language is the rails on which products are shared, so you must play with language, experiment with it, and build the product around the language.
James Currier • Viral Effects Are Not Network Effects
Many Founders have a fantasy that data will be an ongoing insight engine — that as they collect more and more data, they will get more and more insights that will give their startup an ongoing advantage.
NFX • What Makes Data Valuable: The Truth About Data Network Effects
However in this world of permissionless identity we can (and must!) manufacture stability... One way to create narrative stability is through creating “narrative institutions” - these are projects, websites, businesses, side projects, hobbies or activities that you can lean on for stability. While formal things like career, job description or... See more
Tom Critchlow • LF10 - Permissionless Identities
In the face of crisis, the authors warn that mere redistribution within current forms of ownership is not enough; our goal must be to go beyond the limits of the current system, dominated by private enclosure and unequal ownership. Only by reimagining how our economy is owned and by whom can we address the crises of our time—from the fallout of the... See more