
Technology, Money, Design, and Media: Is This the Matrix They Keep Doomposting About?
Jeff Bezos in 1999 for Wired:If you had been a reporter covering the electricity industry, you would have been asking people about what kinds of vacuum cleaners were going to be invented. But the big winners were things like refrigeration. The Internet is still at that stage—nobody knows what the big winners will beIn 2025 you'd think we figured out the big winners due to Instagram, Facebook, X, TikTok, YouTube, Snapchat, WeChat, Telegram, and VR computer companies. But have we really? Do we ...

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Technology, Money, Design, and Media: Is This the Matrix They Keep Doomposting About?
Jeff Bezos in 1999 for Wired:If you had been a reporter covering the electricity industry, you would have been asking people about what kinds of vacuum cleaners were going to be invented. But the big winners were things like refrigeration. The Internet is still at that stage—nobody knows what the big winners will beIn 2025 you'd think we figured out the big winners due to Instagram, Facebook, X, TikTok, YouTube, Snapchat, WeChat, Telegram, and VR computer companies. But have we really? Do we ...

A Meme Is Not a Product, and a Market Is Not Your Backyard

20,000 Hours: Everything I've Got To Say About Crypto After 1,224,720 Minutes Spent On It
This piece is by definition anecdotal. Disagreements will be natural.
Home to Internet Accelerators, Creative Disrupters, & Digital Entrepreneurs.
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A mental model worth exploring?
If memes are being defined as units of culture. Then we need measurement consensus for the unit of account. Affording us the delineation of diameter, mass, velocity, etc.
Take apart the following subjects to discern if this model has legs-- think in terms of units:
Religious symbols, parables, prayers
Currency gradients, functions, measurement
Company mission, philosophy, product offering
The cultural units are expansive and significant.
Ask yourself if the Christian cross equates to the same unit amount as Bitcoin's ₿?
It's a nonsensical argument at time of writing. Thus, qualitative culture has some intuitive level of quantitative measurement.
Meaning units of culture is quite representative of that which is seemingly intangible. The transferrable data of cultural epochs - references, sensory information matrices, thought patterns, narratives, etc.
On the web, tokenization brings a quantitative unit of account to these epochs at a rudimentary level. Likely the start of qualitative tech? Where we tangilize the intangible?
Therefore:
kilobyte → kilomeme
megabyte → megameme
gigabyte → gigameme
terabyte → terameme
Greater digital literacy around resource venture?
With a compounding of digital citizens, concepts, and cultural epochs will increase probability of global intervention/scaling. An early example is Higher.
Pain point in the present is education and internalizing opportunity for verticalization.
I.e. knowing how much cultural data exists within the concept (meme)
Intuitive reframing of digital conceptualization could lead to greater success rates in:
choosing concepts for verticalization
creating organization mechanisms around concepts
durability in the face of tenured scaling

A mental model worth exploring?
If memes are being defined as units of culture. Then we need measurement consensus for the unit of account. Affording us the delineation of diameter, mass, velocity, etc.
Take apart the following subjects to discern if this model has legs-- think in terms of units:
Religious symbols, parables, prayers
Currency gradients, functions, measurement
Company mission, philosophy, product offering
The cultural units are expansive and significant.
Ask yourself if the Christian cross equates to the same unit amount as Bitcoin's ₿?
It's a nonsensical argument at time of writing. Thus, qualitative culture has some intuitive level of quantitative measurement.
Meaning units of culture is quite representative of that which is seemingly intangible. The transferrable data of cultural epochs - references, sensory information matrices, thought patterns, narratives, etc.
On the web, tokenization brings a quantitative unit of account to these epochs at a rudimentary level. Likely the start of qualitative tech? Where we tangilize the intangible?
Therefore:
kilobyte → kilomeme
megabyte → megameme
gigabyte → gigameme
terabyte → terameme
Greater digital literacy around resource venture?
With a compounding of digital citizens, concepts, and cultural epochs will increase probability of global intervention/scaling. An early example is Higher.
Pain point in the present is education and internalizing opportunity for verticalization.
I.e. knowing how much cultural data exists within the concept (meme)
Intuitive reframing of digital conceptualization could lead to greater success rates in:
choosing concepts for verticalization
creating organization mechanisms around concepts
durability in the face of tenured scaling
trying a new writing venture of shorter form stuff that I'd usually keep in my notes apps https://paragraph.xyz/@thenetworkcompany/writers-room-1
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trying a new writing venture of shorter form stuff that I'd usually keep in my notes apps https://paragraph.xyz/@thenetworkcompany/writers-room-1
this measuring system feels like an unlock to me. a related thing i like coming back to picture = 1000 words meme = 10,000 words symbol = 100,000 words i like where you've landed
wondered how it would resonate on your end. glad to hear we’re going in similar directions on it