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Twitter Moments has reduced news to an eye catching headline, a photo, a collection of tweets, and a little connective tissue.

The community helps surface the news. The links to primary sources let you go further. And social integration helps it go viral.
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Twitter Moments is perhaps the most underrated news outlet in the world. Most people don’t even know it exists, because it isn’t branded with its own site.

It just shows up everytime people search for anything...which is tens of millions of times per day. medium.com/@balajis/how-b…
A decentralized Twitter with a fully open state backend would — among other things — allow you to auto-generate many different kinds of newspapers.

What Twitter has done with following topics is like v1 of this. thenextweb.com/twitter/2019/1…
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Balaji S. Srinivasan
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The goal of every massive hit in the 2000-2019 timeframe was to go from product to platform.

The goal of every massive hit in the 2020+ timeframe will be to go from product to protocol.
Binance is a pioneer here with BNB.

It’s the best example of launching a protocol in a scrappy startup style.

BNB initially only had value server-side at Binance.com. So they could iterate fast on features like a typical web app. Then they launched their own chain.
Turning a token into a protocol is a form of progressive decentralization. Iterate on features, then freeze and decentralize.

Call this the “Lean Protocol” approach to crypto development.

Amusing portmanteau of the Lean Startup and the Fat Protocol thesis!
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Balaji S. Srinivasan
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Checking your privilege = boosting their status
In other words, those trained at elite universities to repeat slogans like this do not actually object to status hierarchies.

Their goal is to look down on you — the privilege checked is never their own.
The hard way to gain status is to build something, to accomplish something, to add value.

The easy way is to accuse someone else of being a bad person.

It’s a status-acquisition hack, quick way to gain relative status.

Changing incentives here is key...
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Balaji S. Srinivasan
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Installing software is installing an idea.
You can read a book about how to take photographs. Or you can install Instagram, which guides your hand every step of the way.

Software as an implicit teacher.
What would a software-enabled book look like?

One that didn't just teach you a skill ("How to take photos") or tell you how to live ("The 10 Commandments"), but that essentially had an app embedded within?
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