šĀ On time for your weekend: a round-up of this week'sĀ remarkable storiesĀ at the intersection of #technology, #business, #design, and #culture.
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The road from Rome:
Wasnāt it preferable to lead peaceful lives in a large and stable empire than on a continent where people were constantly at each otherās throats? [ā¦] Designed to cater to the needs of a small ruling class and drawing heavily on the services of local elites, empires were relatively easy to build and cheap to maintain. But they came with built-in limitations: on liberties, on innovation, on sustainable growth
š¤ Canāt help but think of the platform economyāAeon
Paid in Full:
As Web3 matures, creators will eventually be able to do away with Web 2.0ās legacy approaches to monetization and give their audiences the ability to directly invest and even speculate in content, purchasing tokens that correspond to specific images, texts, or relationships with creators and communities, while that content continues to circulate as widely as it could in Web 2.0. Instead of paywalls, NFTs.
š¤ And the end of algorithmic feeds?āReal Life
Welcome to the YOLO Economy:
If ālanguishingā is 2021ās dominant emotion, YOLOing may be the yearās defining work force trend. A recent Microsoft survey found that more than 40 percent of workers globally were considering leaving their jobs this year. Blind, an anonymous social network that is popular with tech workers, recently found that 49 percent of its users planned to get a new job this year.
š„“ Getting off the treadmillāKevin Roose, NY Times
š§ Listening
[S]o letās break up Google, okay into what and what problem does that solve? YouTube is still YouTube, it still doesnāt have any competition. Letās break up Facebook, okay that doesnāt stop teenage girls looking at self-harm content on Instagram. Those are different kinds of problem. The stuff that is going to hurt is regulating where the buy box can appear around Marketplace; itās regulating the price that Amazon charges for shipping.
Benedict EvansāJason & Scot Show
Injection some realism into the Token Economy:
Tokens are like emails. In the beginning they are a bit awkward and it took my mom a while to know what the strange '@' is for, but in the end she the figured it out and used it on a daily basis, as some many others did. Tokens is little bit like: we now have a framework, there's something like a webpage, there's an HTML thing and you can actually do something with it. It's almost like a blank canvas, so what can you do with it?
Katharina GehraāMETACO Talks
The Art of Productive Disagreements:
When your talking about reason, you got to think about it as an inherently social activity. What we're doing is swapping back and forth ideas, and in this social process of giving reasons back and forth we are collectily creating new insights and getting to truth. And that's really how human reason evolved: it involved socially. 07:10 (never learned), 18:00 (losing face), 35:00 (reasoning is social)
Ian LeslieāBuilding Bridges
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