Hey there,
We took last Thrusday off to eat our weight in turkey and fall into a coma. Hope you had the opportunity to do something similar.
Please find the content we’ve been absorbing below… themes run along the lines of effective narrative building, understanding where the internet came from, leveraging low code, the future of coordination, and startup operations.
Watch & Listen
AI industrializing discovery
Eric Weinstein and Vitalik have a conversation
How the Internet Happened (from netscape to the iphone)
Building Makerpad without writing a line of code
Articles
Orbit’s dev relation funnel
$40MM signal for full stack game development
Foundational principles for world class startups
The history of Flash
Narrative states & game design
Quotes from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
How Facebook crushes DevOps
Politics drive immutability more than tech
Product market fit engine using Airtable
Buzzfeed impacting the 2010’s
Success requires failure
Focus on the users
A prophecy from 2015
Wait But Why (discussing the inner self and collective self~DAOs)
Low Code
Low code tutorial goldmine: How Lambda School grew using no code tools
Flow chart builder
Low Code Summit
Web3 frontend: ✔️ (killing it Dennis)
Mobile Downloads
Heroes - video job searching
RecRoom - game creation world
Kodika - build apps on the train
Twitterspace
Startup Wisdom
Find your narrative
Be concise
Creatives lie on a spectrum
Narratives rule human thought
Magic happens with fast iterations
Happenings
Cybertruck marketing
ApplePay now bigger than PayPal (tx volume)
Paul Graham back to essay writing
Ideas
Timing is everything (in relation to mobile video chat apps)
Unpopular Opinion: Tesla is a media company
Empower the collective and the individual
What made Google great
Focus on users, not hype
The challenge with merging product and distribution
Product development is an early adopter problem
Crypto Twitter
OSS is plagued by interest in complex systems
Onboarding to Celer just got easier
We agree with Yaniv
A critique of tribalism
Instabank your crypto with Wyre offramps
Musings on Connext
The challenge with state channels
What We’re Reading
Mindf*ck - Cambridge Analytica And The Plot To Break America
The Courage To Be Disliked - The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
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Best,
Abridged Team