Cons: accounts were compromised, wallets were drained and trust was further diminished. Pros: account hygiene is now more broadly understood, and people are (hopefully) revoking access to a graveyard's worth of dead apps they forgot they gave permissions to.

"Everything downstream depends on the quality of your thinking." This overview of Gas Town is easily one of the best things I've read around running multiple agent workflows. If thats you, then this is a must read

Anyone here playing around with AgentCraft as a front end to control their agents?

IBM thinks long term in ways many other organizations don't. They understand what is needed to maintain the pipeline for another generational cycle, and this is them acting on it. If there's a silver lining it's that other large companies will see this move and apply a similar strategy in an attempt to weather long te... Show more

"a million people participated in something with no incentive, no shared interest, no outcome. the button didn’t DO anything. it just existed and people couldn’t stop pressing it because other people were pressing it and not pressing it started to feel like missing something."

"When platforms eliminate entry barriers, the average return collapses toward zero. In the creator economy, productivity isn't luck. It's built through discipline most entrants won't sustain."

“I didn’t realize you change your whole moral compass based on who the persecutor is… I was just trying to have consistent beliefs and thoughts and I didn’t realize you let the very people committing these crimes control the narrative”

Two things can exist at once, even if they look like they oppose each other from the outset. You need publicity to bring attention to your idea, and sadly being contrarian is a low hanging way to effectively do that. You can care about decentralization and understand that in order to bring the concept to a larger d... Show more

"The idea was ambitious, but the timing betrayed it. Sony no longer trusted tape to carry meaning on its own, yet it could not quite let it go. The cassette was being asked to behave like a file, and it resisted." ----- "At the moment people expected digital media to feel lighter, Sony made it procedural. This was when... Show more

Good and bad are subjective. The true test is if people are still talking about it long after it happens...or in this day and age, more than a week. Time will tell if it passes that test.

It took roughly 30 years and fan who spent 5k GBP to surface one of the most sought after mix tapes of all time in pristine quality. Compared to the previous versions that circulated, it's night and day how good this new transfer is.