👋 On time for your weekend: a round-up of this week’s remarkable stories at the intersection of technology, business, design, and culture.
Three articles and three podcasts wrestled from this week's algorithmic feeds and like-bait drum. No fluff, and signal > noise⚡️
📚 Reading
🤖 The Seven Rules of the Metaverse:
What matters is that someday, a global network of spatially organized, predominantly 3D content will be available to all without restriction, for use in all human endeavors — a new and profoundly transformational medium, enabled by major innovations in hardware, human-computer interface, network infrastructure, creator tools and digital economies.
17-minute read by Tony Parisi
🎠 Money-Go-Round:
The idea that 'Web3' constitutes some new framework that corrects or repudiates the problems of the previous 'Web 2.0' paradigm misrepresents the emerging interactions and continuities between them. As interested parties try to push NFTs and crypto into the mainstream, they don’t upend the current platforms’ mass markets and cultures of virality but become embedded within them.
10-minute read by Ameera Kawash in Real Life
🤕 On Feelings, Morality, and Heretics:
[I]ntellectual laziness is related to the seemingly unstoppable force of tribalism in our culture that has caused us to lose our ability to segregate emotional responses from logical ones. In many cases, our tribes have replaced authoritative morality with emotional response, and societal impact with self-satisfaction. This isn’t a partisan political statement. The left is no more or less guilty than the right.
7-minute read by Trae Stephens
🎧 Listening
👊 Own Your Culture:
Culture is the one sustainable competitive advantage that you as a leader have complete control of [..] The only way you can break your culture is by modeling different behaviors that are counter to your culture and by hiring people who don't fit the values of your company. That's it. It is the most powerful asset you have in your business.
34 minutes with Brett Putter on Wicked Podcast
🥷 This is a fight for all the money in the world:
In the Metaverse, in the crypto world, almost everybody is doing it because they want to steal from you. They want to grab your money, or your coins, in the form of fees, in the form of liquidations, in the form of everything besides helping you get to financial freedom. And if I convince enough people, then we can build this future together.
69 minutes with Celsius’ Alex Mashinsky on Danny in the Valley
👩💼👩🎨 Stories on Life and Business:
One of the things that I really admire about Bill Gates, is he's super rational when it comes to ideas and sunk costs. And so if you challenge him on an idea or he asks you something, [..] if you're right on the facts and you're right on the logic [..] He just wants to understand, and that makes you such a better business person: to be able to take those mentally sunk ideas…
80 minutes with Tren Griffin on Infinite Loops
🎁 One More Thing
☕️ Next Tuesday: a virtual coffee with Adriana chatting on a platform strategist's job, the power in ecosystem innovation, and a few life hacks.
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