Timour Kosters
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Investor & builder working in blockchain and ml. Tweeting: @timourxyz
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A focus on ‘missing middle’ housing: The plans feature housing that is fairly high density but not high rise — a combination of "row houses" between 2-4 stories high, and apartment buildings going up to 8 stories. This is the type of neighborhood that makes up the most beloved places in the world. Places like Amsterdam, Venice, Santa Monica, Lake... See more
Devon Zuegel • Part 3: The first walkable city in America in a century
Another example is SHEIN, who have done the same for commerce.
Rex Woodbury • The TikTokization of Everything
To bring about grand futures, we humans have to figure out how to reconcile our current needs with our lofty ambitions. Tight-knit support communities - what we call tribes in this post - seem to be a good way to preserve our well-being and values while achieving more impact. Yet, building effective tribes seems like a relatively neglected puzzle... See more
Konrad Seifert • The role of tribes in achieving lasting impact and how to create them - LessWrong
Many founders might be tempted to cast a wider net and get more users onto the product — but Ofstad again cautions against moving too quickly here. With just pockets of those click-into-place customer moments, the Airtable team knew it would be an unusually slow path to launch.
First Round Capital • Airtable's Path to Product-Market Fit
Behind these conversations is a fundamental change of the digital age that applies to essentially every creative field: in the past, consumers bought and collected physical editions of creative work, creating a direct value exchange between fans, artists, and producers. Today almost all creative work is digitized and essentially rented — lowering
... See moreYancey Strickler • The old shit doesn't work anymore
Over the years, plenty of responsible experimenters – think of the more pragmatic elements among the back-to-the-landers, kibbutzim, Tolstoyan farmers and so on – have managed to demonstrate that new societies can form successfully at modest scales. The best among them also managed to establish a productive and beneficial relationship with the... See more
Matt Prewitt • Secret Societies, Network States, Burning Man, Zuzalu, and More: Thoughts on New Political Communities
What do we mean by “decentralization,” anyway? It’s a capacious term, and in the past few years it’s been tossed around more freely than ever. Flocks of birds, free-market economies, cities, peer-to-peer computer networks: these are all considered examples of decentralization. Yet so, too, in other contexts, are the American public-school system
... See moreJames Surowiecki • The Wisdom of Crowds
To run a profitable and scalable business, you want LTV > CAC. Currently, w e have rising CACs and less scalable, measurable acquisition-and it's all happening in a recessionary market environment.
Digital Native • Revisiting Lifetime Value and Customer Acquisition
DAOs will likely become large networks with shared incentives and coordination tools, made up of smaller units (which can still be quite bit) that act in a more directed and centralized way.