We wanted motor tubs, instead we got mobile phones.

Here is the test: During the dot com boom and later, not having a .com domain and any form of online presence was seen as a disadvantage for businesses. The day the same scenario happens with going onchain, we know crypto has made it.

It’s fascinating to know that I belong to a generation that grew up without technology. Evenings were about sunsets; mornings were about sunrises - no notifications to check or feeds to scroll. The same generation that actually got to see the transition; the one that knows how things changed and what’s lost/gained.

✨The secret sauce It keeps evolving and changing. It sounds almost trivial and magically transformative at the same time. This so called secret sauce becomes a cultural effect that people find it as a hack or a solution for lot of things or a secret sauce that could somehow dramatically change lot of things all of a sudden - it is reflected in products, brands and the works of individuals or teams. Likewise, the two main secret sauces that I have seen so far: 1. Passion It was everywhere once - but it actually became a thing around the period of Steve Jobs. And hence attached to brands and products from Apple and those who had shared or aspired for similar vibes. 2. Agency(and taste) Associated with “you can just do things”. This is the current secret sauce. It’s the reflection of the mindset, energy and momentum of what people are aspiring for right now. It’s in videos, demos, blogposts, tweets, etc., It carries the idea of why people need a God - something that sounds simple and magical that they can attach themselves to or seek in everything they do; which they believe that it could give them access to superpowers.

internet creative market <> internet capital market

it turns out the world is an amazing place but you are not retarded enough

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I still don’t know how much design matters just in crypto - because my opinion has always been that crypto should be a (horizontal) layer in the full stack. And design is how it matters for the end user experience - who cares about more the benefit and less about the tech/feature that is crypto.

“you can just do things” is like the Think Different campaign from Apple but for AI and Crypto. AI: agency to build Crypto: permissionless stack for distribution

Looks like I just figured something that’s quite interesting.

folks tweet “you can just do things” and keep scrolling endlessly

AOL! Interesting that Bending Spoons came out of nowhere, bought Evernote and now buying AOL - pretty wild for them. Don’t think they had done a better job with improving Evernote since the acquisition; it actually became bad than it was. It will be interesting to see how it goes with AOL.