Sophie

@sophie

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The holidays are a great time to be reminded how small our corners of the world are — most people don’t know anything about what we obsess over day to day, but we can still come together to share fundamental human experiences.

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I don’t understand the femtech craze. Seems to be driven by people who are at the prime age to have kids but don’t have any. Women with thriving families seem to be less into it, or at least not moving in hoards towards it as a current trend.

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If you were starting your career now with any skillset you want, what would you do? What would you optimize for? Where would you work?

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The curse of modern society is impatience. All these efficiency and productivity hacks are engrained into people, leading to too much optimization and not enough of enjoying the thing you spent all previous moments optimizing for

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Social media has been the ultimate leveler for introverts and extroverts. A lot of people conflate introversion and not being confident, which are vastly different but probably loosely correlated, and social media has probably been the worst divider for the confident and not confident.

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In the last five years, certain industries have created new lucrative fields of work like: - social media - crypto - the cloud - cannabis - big data Some of my guesses of what these will be in the next five years: - VR/AR - prompt generation - semi autonomous robots - quantum computing - decentralization/moderation

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Education and exposure are the fundamental building blocks in someone who will produce innovation in society. There’s nothing more powerful than giving people access to both when they seek it.

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Chick-fil-a is proof that no matter how strong your political views, a great product wins most everyone over

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For companies whose products are not inherently exciting to the masses, Figma and Notion have built up true cult brands

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Artificial intelligence is much less artificial than human intelligence is. We use shortcuts and have biases that mean much of what we think we know is flawed, and we tend to apply it universally, but machines have absolute knowledge within constraints they abide to

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Passed some VC offices (incl Benchmark) on Whisky Hill Road (questionable name) and they look like 18th century American towns 😳 How is this the Bay Area considered the heart of American innovation?

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People in mainstream tech don’t think deeply and write nearly as much as those in crypto. This has led to those who want to reinvent things and restructure society being drawn to the ethos and people of crypto, even if the current state of tech isn’t necessarily their cup of tea.

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Sleep is the most underpriced commodity on an individual level

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gm medellín 🫡 https://i.imgur.com/oXvoBwe.jpg

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When we think of “virtual”, it’s usually a digital-only interface. Interesting that the word comes from “strength or power”, since having something completely abstracted from the physical world is very powerful (from Reality+ by David Chalmers) https://i.imgur.com/WFNxLwD.jpg

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If twitter can hide comments from bots why doesn’t it just delete the bots? Is Elon right?

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I wonder how big a gap there is between the most popular male and female names being taken as usernames on new apps like Clubhouse, ENS, etc.

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We need more transparent pricing systems for flights and hotels…surge pricing is crazy. How am I paying 4 figures for 2 people to fly 90 min on a semi-budget airline 😖

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The NFT feed is the best discovery mechanism for NFTs that I’ve seen 👀

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