Facilitating collaboration in a digital tool is a key multiplier for creativity.

compared with other promising opportunities.

Imagine your self-driving car negotiating traffic, paying fractional bitcoin to neighboring cars in exchange for priority.

Game developers no longer have to manage every piece of their economy: from the supply of resources to pricing to capital controls. Instead, they can let free markets do the heavy lifting!

David Dobrik's action-packed 4-minute videos are doing so well). We are forming the habit of seeking the next hit of dopamine faster. TikTok endulges this desire.

The main counter to social tokens is that they commoditize social activities in a way that makes them lose their intrinsic social value. Instead of sharing an article because you love it, you share it to get a coin.

distributing their tokens through the game to drive network effects and and value for the underlying assets. 

A few of these folks even go above and beyond monetary contributions and put in their time in actively spreading the word.

The service included a personal email address (yourname@davidbowie.com), access to exclusive music from Rolling Stone, exclusive content, and live chats Bowie and his friends.

but I hadn’t seen a convincing killer app used by regular people until I discovered the resurgence of NFTs.  

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Apple would do its learners a huge service by providing them an Xcode equivalent on the iPad. Not because it would suddenly be easy to make applications and release them on the App Store, but because it would give iPad-bound learners a chance to engage that challenge and grow into true application developers in time.

Perhaps most importantly, Embedded Education can contribute to a more equitable and effective distribution of knowledge, skills, and information. By leveraging the product’s existing assets and infrastructure, platforms can deliver education and reach underserved communities much more efficiently than if one had to create new educational content from scratch.

turned into a way for developers around the world to learn about new subjects.

We know a company has created something special when we see organic lessons and tutorials being created beyond what the product is intended to do.

Shopify launched Compass to offer a wide range of marketing and business courses.

Robinhood launched “Robinhood Learn” to teach people the basic concepts of investing and acquired the newsletter “Snacks” to produce business-related educational content. How about building a website? Browser-based web design platform Webflow created Webflow University to teach everything from layout and typography to interactions and 3D transforms. How about conducting a team brainstorming session? How about starting a business?

Can you confidently build a secure, functional, and fast web app for your favorite deli downstairs to take orders after being certified as a React expert on Lynda.com?

Embedded education is the practice of educating people through encounters that they already have with systems that exist primarily for non-educational purposes.

EdTech companies in the past decade have delivered a 10x product experience to the consumers through innovating on three main pillars: content delivery, learning experience, and skills credentialing. Take Coursera as an example:

while the genuinely independent-minded worry they might not be independent-minded enough.

One difficulty here, though, is that people are often mistaken about where they fall on the spectrum from conventional- to independent-minded. Conventional-minded people don't like to think of themselves as conventional-minded. And in any case, it genuinely feels to them as if they make up their own minds about everything. It's just a coincidence that their beliefs are identical to their peers'. And the independent-minded, meanwhile, are often unaware how different their ideas are from conventional ones, at least till they state them publicly.

“Typically the main problem with software coding—and I’m a coder myself,” Bantégnie says, “is not the skills of the coders. The people know how to code. The problem is what to code. Because most of the requirements are kind of natural language, ambiguous, and a requirement is never extremely precise, it’s often understood differently by the guy who’s supposed to code.”

The diagrams make the system’s rules obvious: Just by looking, you can see that the only way to get the elevator moving is to close the door, or that the only way to get the door open is to stop.

each of which took a process that used to involve writing lots of custom code and reduced it to playing around in a WYSIWYG interface.

The whole problem had been reduced to playing with different parameters, as if adjusting levels on a stereo receiver, until you got Mario to thread the needle.

There is an analogy to word processing. It used to be that all you could see in a program for writing documents was the text itself, and to change the layout or font or margins, you had to write special “control codes,” or commands that would tell the computer that, for instance, “this part of the text should be in italics.” The trouble was that you couldn’t see the effect of those codes until you printed the document. It was hard to predict what you were going to get. You had to imagine how the codes were going to be interpreted by the computer—that is, you had to play computer in your head.

My first week at Zendesk I was asked to fill out a career card which highlighted my professional goals over the next ten years, which included a plan to move up the ranks as an operator

but upfront payments are a lot riskier, and usually a sign that the platform doesn’t offer creators anything unique.