Year: 2022

@jeffsussna @sallamar Chapter 10 again: in Middle Ages Europe (13th century), Scholastics embraced Aristotle’s position that money was just a convention between humans and it could take any form. https://t.co/NAnzDulXcl

@jeffsussna @sallamar Chapter 10: how and why China went from bullions and coins to paper money (banknotes), originally called “flying cash”. https://t.co/HCnYHUfYSh

@jeffsussna @sallamar Again from Chapter 10, one of the biggest insights so far: almost all of the new forms of paper money that emerged were not originally created by governments at all. https://t.co/pg2b9EbvX3

Two great enemies of technology mass adoption: complexity and religious fervour.

Prepare for a weekend of soul searching:

Charli D’Amelio, who started posting videos of herself dancing on TikTok in 2019, brought in $17.5 million last year, By comparison, median pay for chief executives of S&P 500 companies was $13.4 million in 2020

https://t.co/AA9xI78FbD

It seems to me that most people need to embrace a cause (regardless of their understanding of the details or their subsequent actions to support it) to be fulfilled in life. Whether the company they work for doesn’t provide a compelling one, they go about and find their own.

RT @Werner: Anyone interested in helping to draft web4? And then working backwards from that to see how we could implement that?

History of uprisings in China https://t.co/XKGP44WXIG

1/ Have a public discourse on Twitter, and a semi-private one on FB or LinkedIn. Then a thematic discourse on Reddit. Then do your thing on YouTube, Twitch, TikTok, or Instagram. Then you engage with your audience on Discord. Now reflect on all of that in your newsletter or blog.

2/ Somehow, at some point, it started feeling like a 24h job. But you don’t remember when. It’s fulfilling to be busy.

BTW, you still have to answer your friends and family on Whatsapp, Messenger, Telegram, or Signal, and your colleagues on Slack, Team, or Google Meet.