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@gregisenberg It’s coming but it won’t look like a social app in the beginning

If your smartest friends start saying crazy things - pay attention. A paradigm shift may be underway.

“Acquisition of skills requires a regular environment, an adequate opportunity to practice, and rapid and unequivocal feedback about the correctness of thoughts and actions.” ― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

1/ On Taxis Or how the world is centralizing all around you, but why you, fellow citizen, have probably not thought about it at all. (NYC, 2007 below)

Attention is All You Need, by @packyM open.substack.com/pub/notboring/…

Lie: You have to become an expert at something. Society celebrates experts in any given field. But as @DavidEpstein finds in Range, many experts succeed because of the range of pursuits that preceded their main endeavor. Become a polymath. Generalize first, specialize later.

this perfect article from @albertwenger is what i'll share with people who ask why I think web3/crypto/blockchain is a big deal. HT @mikeindustries continuations.com/post/671863718… (snippet below)

Know when to step away from a good idea and revisit it. If you can't let your ideas incubate, you're robbing them of their potential. Raf Simons while creative director at Dior:

🔥Time To Build An Open Metaverse 🔥 All 6529 mega-threads are pinned in this thread of threads: x.com/punk6529/statu… The team game plan is here: x.com/punk6529/statu… Hop on board fam, we are going to save the world.

1/ What is an NFT? Wait, what? Isn't this easy? I am not so sure. Let's take a look!

Complain less. Build more.

The Big Bang started with a tiny point, then formed 200 billion galaxies, and led to me writing this tweet while standing in line at 7-Eleven. Why is everyone acting like this is normal? Life is a miracle.

Web 2: Users are the data, corporations own the platform, and the code is closed. Web 3: Users own their data, contributors own the platform, and the code is open.

7/ The macro is more projects start. More projects finish. More art is made. More contributions are made to society.

This fixes the core problem of centralized networks, where the value is accumulated by one company, and the company ends up fighting its own users and partners.

1/ Tokens are a new digital primitive, analogous to the website 🧵

We live and breathe ordinary magic every single day + it's so common we don't even notice it. You could run all of the super computers in the world for 10,000 years + still not be able to simulate the trillions of nano machines running inside of us right now for a single second.

@brian_armstrong Brian, this is "Regulation via Litigation". They aren't capable of working through this themselves and are afraid of making mistakes in doing so. They they leave it to the lawyers. Just the people you don't want impacting the new technologies. You have to go on the offensive

Bitcoin is an exit from the Fed. DeFi is an exit from Wall Street. Social media is an exit from mass media. Homeschooling is an exit from industrial education. Remote work is an exit from 9-5. Creator economy is an exit from employment. Individuals are leaving institutions.

Progressive Decentralization 2.0: 1. Sell "Hello World" NFT 2. Use funds to build a product people want 3. Airdrop to the community, including NFT backers Coming in hot.