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Post-Hoc Myth-Making at Scale
The Token Disconnect - Stephen Diehl
After looking at this phenomenon for the last decade, I’ll give what I believe is the first rough draft of history. Silicon Valley ran dry on large breakthroughs in software, so we decided to invent the “blockchain”, a simulacrum of innovation that organically fermented from the anti-institutional themes
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Web3 Needs More Product People
I know that it’s a bit of a wild west right now, but basically every web3 website I go to needs more input from product people to be usable for anyone besides the enthusiast crowd.
Every single time I’ve tried to do anything in this space, I’ve had to go to social
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When the Smartest People Disagree
Is Crypto Bullshit? by Will Wilkinson:
One of my personal epistemic precepts is that if I disagree with somebody who is (a) at least smart as I am, (b) has generally sound judgment and (c) is better informed on a subject, then I ought to concede that I’m probably wrong and revise my opinion
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Why There Won't be a Web3 Version of Twitter
From Robin Sloan's Notes on Web3:
“Web3” that depends on Twitter for its marketing and coordination channel really deserve the name? You might say, “Oh, just wait; Web3 will make a Twitter of its own.” No, it won’t. Such a platform would be use