Never been, but now I like @Australia a lot. >

How the ‘Djokovic Affair’ Finally Came to an End https://t.co/FJE87gteLI

Two great enemies of technology mass adoption: friction (in the user experience) and religious fervour (of its advocates).

@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

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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