Tom So

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Deep into web3 social, bit of a generalist In the crypto rabbit hole (as I should). Also super into startups, everything social and community building. I usually read on product management and career development - I add engineering sprinkles to the mix bc why not

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The size and sophistication of these models make it impossible to fully understand how they make predictions. They have billions of weights that interact in subtle ways to make a final prediction; looking at them is like hoping to understand psychology by examining individual brain cells. Even in academic settings with well-established models, the... See more

future.com • How Recommendation Algorithms Actually Work | Future - https://future.com/forget-open-source-algorithms-focus-on-experiments-instead

Is ownership shifting from an ability to demonstrate control or possession to the ability to make collective meaning?

Kernel • Signature Economies

How Superhuman Built an Engine to Find Product Market Fit

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Startup Growth and

Zoom out, and you can see that scarcity has been the story of the whole pandemic response. In early 2020, Americans were told to not wear masks, because we apparently didn’t have enough to go around. Last year, Americans were told to not get booster shots, because we apparently didn’t have enough to go around. Today, we’re worried about people

Derek Thompson • A Simple Plan to Solve All of America’s Problems

high-skill immigration, since foreign-born geniuses starting American companies—in green energy, yes, but also in software and beyond—is perhaps the greatest free lunch in all of economics.

Derek Thompson • A Simple Plan to Solve All of America’s Problems

124 - Is Mark Cuban Buying the Bear?

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Regenerative Finance and

26: distinguish good strategy vs meh strategyGood: all about connecting the dots to get people from a to bIf you are given a metric, you have to get every artifact you have and match it to that goal.

Pay close attention to assumptions you are making unknowingly- look for confusion in people when you explain

33: when you start at a new company and... See more

Lenny Rachitsky • Jackie Bavaro on getting better at product strategy, what exactly is strategy, PM pitfalls to avoid, advancing your career, getting into management, and much more

When it comes to recognizing, classifying, and verifying identity on-chain, I see it being approached from two angles:1. The puppet view: identity-bearing agents are represented by explicit on-chain behavior sets.2. The puppeteer view: identity-bearing agents are represented by the inferred association of certain on-chain behaviors to off-chain... See more

Mirror • Mapping the web3 Identity Landscape

Intertwining Threads

Substack notboring.co

Future of Art and