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Max
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Chris Dixon outlines the issues with corporate networks really well in his new book. The attract and extract cycle is vicious and inescapable. His main thesis seems to be blockchain networks give the best of both worlds in terms of protocols (SMTP & HTTP) and corporate networks and push the value out to users and devs
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Max
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For the most part yes, but only ~80% through and skipped around after part 1. Enjoyed the history of the internet with his perspective and business experience. Blockchain part was also solid. Was underwhelmed by use cases in finance but may be too close to it.
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Will dig in here. I definitely respect Molly White. One quick point after skimming- Agree that the disclaimer was not provided every time an a16z investment was mentioned. Probably should have been a * after every investment was mentioned. But the disclaimer is there and every one is listed on the website.
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Jonathan
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I think her disclaimer criticism is invalid given that he gives this disclaimer. She said she could not find any disclaimers. She missed it. I also respect her critical approach, believe that level of intellectual reflection is important, and glad that there is wikipedian level of citation standard happening.
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Jonathan
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Also re: Helium (pg 134 in RWO) she critiques how bad its tech / management was. But that wasn't the point of mentioning it, rather was that it was able to bootstrap global supply side economics using token incentives, enabling something no other previous effort could accomplish illustrating token incentives potential.
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