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Chris Dixon

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20 Sep

6/ Popular skeuomorphic Web 3 ideas include offline ticketing, supply chain management, and record keeping for offline assets. These may be good ideas, just as read-only websites were a good idea, but they only scratch the surface of what Web 3 can be.

7/ A lot of today’s NFTs are adaptations from the offline world of art and collectibles. This leads people to think that NFTs are limited to those domains, in the same way people once thought the web was limited to brochures and magazines.

8/ Tokens—fungibles and NFTs— are better thought of as new digital primitives, similar in flexibility and generality to past digital primitives like the website.

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Chris Dixon

@cdixon

20 Sep

1/ Tokens are a new digital primitive, analogous to the website 🧵

2/ Major computing waves generally have two eras: the skeuomorphic era and the native era.

3/ In the skeuomorphic era, the design thinking is largely adapted from older domains. For example, the early web was mostly digital adaptations of pre-internet activities like letter writing and mail-order shopping. Websites back then were mostly read only.

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Chris Dixon

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22 Aug

1/ Topic: Turning networks into economies 🧵

2/ We spent the last 20 years building networks on the internet. Social media platforms like Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and Discord are networks, which can be divided into billions of smaller networks, consisting of followers, friends, subscribers, backers, etc.

3/ These platforms gave many people an audience who didn’t previously have one. But due to fundamental structural misalignments between the networks and the companies that own them, we’ve seen increasing tension around these networks’ rules and economics.

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Chris Dixon

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17 Aug

1/ Topic: Blockchains are the new app stores 🧵

2/ If you were an ambitious, risk-seeking founder in the mobile golden age circa 2009-12, you built a new mobile app. That was when Uber, WhatsApp, Instagram, Venmo, Snapchat, and many other top apps were built.

3/ Mobile has since moved up the technology adoption S-curve. Great mobile apps will still be built, but the low-hanging fruit has been picked.

The computing frontier of this decade is building apps on programmable blockchains like Ethereum.

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Chris Dixon

@cdixon

14 Aug

@lexfridman

Recently went down the @lexfridman podcast rabbit hole. Love how he asks simple, fundamental questions to fascinating people in science, math, CS etc.

My favorite episodes (so far):

Luís and João Batalha: Fermat's Library and the Art of Studying Papers

Cumrun Vafa: String Theory

Konstantin Batygin: Planet 9 and the Edge of Our Solar System

Sara Walker: The Origin of Life on Earth and Alien Worlds

Jordan Ellenberg: Mathematics of High-Dimensional Shapes and Geometries

Katherine de Kleer: Planets, Moons, Asteroids & Life in Our Solar System

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Chris Dixon

@cdixon

12 Aug

1/ Topic: Going from Web 2 to Web 3 - “Your take rate is my opportunity” 🧵

2/ Jeff Bezos famously said "your margin is my opportunity" referring to the way Amazon took market share by lowering prices and eating into competitor margins.

3/ What Amazon did in commerce is what the internet did more generally. Lowering prices and redistributing value back to users has been the internet’s core economic dynamic since the 90s.

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