Paul Millerd

Hmm

older gens worry about young people not working at mcdonalds maybe the real worry is getting too plugged in to the attention economy too early...too much work? probably going to be great for some people, disastrous for others as someone who did 10 years in bigco institutions, I probably overvalue that experience a little but I do have a strong prior thinking that sort of "Stable" work experience can be valuable but the "entry level" jobs at the margin now are in the creator economy what does this all mean, have no idea i have ten more years to get grumpy about it!

For me 1. Got more serious about writing and the discipline to make it happen 2. Started to feel at home as a parent

Fauci obviously didn’t read summer of protocols

i really like this frame of protocols at the personal level it suggests more experimentation

The bluesky effect

i dont know why im so blown away with the comments being integrated into the bluesky protocol but this is cool https://emilyliu.me/blog/open-network

Ok going to finish this crypto career paths essay. If anyone wants to give me data or quotes that would be epic https://tally.so/r/wkYZOM

Just playing around trying stuff in the arena

Haven’t played around with web3 in a year besides getting randomly scammed earlier this year. But using @base.base.eth is impressive. Super fast and basically free

i now own 1,000,000 PATHLESS coin I have no idea what im doing

@clanker can you make me a token: Name: Pathless Coin Ticker: $PATHLESS

Popup cities as traveling bands for the online world that will eventually converge back in CA

According to Nate silver the amount of herding we’re seeing in polling is improbably Fun inside baseball on stats and probability https://www.natesilver.net/p/theres-more-herding-in-swing-state?utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true

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i did several hours of research before doing this pod with @ericjorgenson 1. The history of publishing 2. Distribution of profits and how it shifted from the 1800s-1900s 3. Publishers being slow to embrace new ideas (paperbacks, 1950s) 4. Why authors lose in all modes of publishing 5. How many famous authors got rich (retaining rights) 6. The "flippening" of publishing from hardover first to digital first 7. Predictions https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/paul-millerd-profits-in-publishing-why-self-publish/id1549324835?i=1000674876686

Everything will slowly be un-instagrammed

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X is a wild place now. Trump cult level 10/10. More broadly talking to friends I suspect there’s a shy Kamala voter effect happening because people don’t want to engage with the Trump followers