The TL;DR

BitClout starts taking over the world, a .NET domain name sells for a .COM price, and NFTs are still out of control.

Deeper down the rabbit hole:

📰 Snippets

🌏 Explore

✏ Thought of the week

📰 Snippets

Here are some articles and videos that have been keeping me busy this week.

• The Human Race: Driven by compression progress (link)

• Beeple deep dive (link)

• NFTs for copyrights (link)

• The cost-quality curve (link)

• The hidden fingerprint inside your photos (link)

• The wannabe food influencer wanted by the FBI (link)

• Inside Gumroad’s historic crowdfunding (link)

• The out-of-control rise of Clubhouse (link)

• Pacaso goes to unicorn in five months (link)

• Merck’s little brown pill that could transform the COVID fight (link)

• How one man built the Sharper Image into a wacky gadget store (link)

• Make fast and accurate decisions with the OODA loop (link)

• Designing for 911 operators (link)

• Anatomy of a newsletter (link)

• Six-figure content audits as a business (link)

• The impact of inheritance (link)

🌏 Explore

• Got on BitClout this week, and I’m into it. Seems like it’s kinda taking the baton from Clubhouse and dominating the tech world media cycle right now. It’s so genius, I have so many thoughts:

  • The growth marketing components are straight fire. They scraped the top 15,000 Twitter profiles and creators have all the incentive in the world to claim (they can claim 10% of their market cap). On top of that, you have to tweet with their hashtag to claim it. Elon could claim millions of dollars by claiming his. I also love the invite-only play for users.

  • Not everyone is loving it apparently. Will there be more cease-and-desists for using people’s likenesses?

  • The platform is so sketchy. Is it a scam? You still can’t pull out money.

  • Here are the top 10 creators as of 4:00 3/28. Who would you buy?

    

• For me, Wikipedia is the original rabbit hole. Depths of Wikipedia is a great Instagram account that will send you to some weird places.

• For the guitar players out there, I just got the Spark Grid Amp and it’s awesome. It’s my first practice amp.

• I featured a Mark Rober video last week (the one with catching the phone scammers). He is hosting a seriously cool-looking engineering course.

• Poker.net just sold for $750k - huge .NET sale.

• Flourish is a nifty tool for building data visualizations.

• Type Studio can translate one YouTube video into a bunch of languages.

• The NYT minted an article as an NFT that sold for 350 ETH. TIME magazine is also selling magazine covers for over $100k. wtf.

• The price of shipping containers is up 207% YOY.

• This was a good article exploring self-directed IRAs as a retirement option.

• Robinhood is next up to IPO.

✏ Thought of the Week

From the Wikipedia rabbit hole:

The Zeigarnik effect occurs when an activity that has been interrupted may be more readily recalled.

Until next week.

Stretch

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