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By yielding a generational wealth creation opportunity that was a strange hybrid of a lottery jackpot and self-made fortune, crypto created an ideolog

For example, it was 30 years after the invention of film that someone first tried telling stories with it — before that, film was mainly used as a dem

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How do you explain the web to people who have never used it? You make it as simple and as accessible as possible.

Bounties Suck. For both DAOs and Contributors ... A short thread on why, and what we should try instead. 👇 1/8

"Every product in the world, the quality at the end of the day is simply a reflection of how much the people who created it gave a shit about the prod

we have a world where friction gets automated out of experiences, aestheticized in curated lifestyles, and dumped onto underfunded infrastructure and

Long-tail users of user-centered design are not given the degree of control necessary to adapt the design object or tool to their unique needs, and de

When startups start taking off, the founders usually can't tell what's changed. It's some combination of all the random things they did to make it ta

There can be no doubt that there is a lot of hateful content on the internet. But Substack has come up with the best solution yet: Giving writers and

One thing mainstream media outlets misunderstand: Substack is not one platform, it is thousands of platforms, and you get to pick which ones to be par

Spend some time on Substack, then spend some time on Twitter (X) or Facebook or any of the rest—it’s easy to see this is one of the best places on the

Could We Ever Really Build a Dyson Sphere? This megastructure for gathering solar energy would fill any conceivable future energy desires. But can it

Most AI backlash is economic anxiety coated in a veneer of social justice. Alfalfa farming consumes 19 times the water that data centers do; there’s n

“Diffusion lag” reflects a lack of product-market fit. Even AI optimists are still hitting practical roadblocks. That’s why detailed case studies are

Here are some things I’ve asked chatgpt recently: “why is Toblerone so popular at airport duty-free stores?” “give me a recipe for a chickpea tagine

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The destiny of our species is shaped by the imperatives of survival on six distinct time scales. To survive means to compete successfully on all six

We need the right kind of climate optimism

We Need the Right Kind of Climate Optimism

the moralists ask us how we can justify our love of reading, we can make use of some such excuse as this. But if we are honest, we know that no such e

The hot new theory online is that reading is kaput, and therefore civilization is too. The rise of hyper-addictive digital technologies has shattered

TED’S 24 RULES FOR READINGReading shouldn’t be a goal—instead it ought to be cultivated as a habit.It should be a relaxing and enjoyable habit, someth

Decentralized investor communities gain traction in biotech

The Only Crypto Story You Need, by Matt Levine

We can always opt out of this arrangement, of course, and live happily in meatspace, but that is precisely the point: Offline we exist by default; onl

We are currently living in a time when the lines between fantasy and reality are blurring and virtual worlds are creating room for new rules of self-e

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DeFi, dApps and DAOs: The Key Differences

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Solana vs. Ethereum L2s, a UX comparison

25/25) I would praise SOL if it pivoted & fixed these flaws The problem is that it would require changing the very attributes that where sold as