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July 2021 | Archive

I'm trying an experiment where I use Notion to save all of the interesting articles that I read this past month. Follow me at @blakeir (Updated: 8.02.2021)
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A quick guide to Stripe’s culture
stripe.com
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How Do You Know?
altos.vc
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How Free to Play Video Games are Forced to Make Addicts
every.to
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Infinity Revenue, Infinity Possibilities
www.notboring.co
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Royal Match - The New King from Turkey?
www.deconstructoroffun.com
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Supercell's killed games: Celebrating lessons, not failures
www.gamesindustry.biz
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The Blurred Lines of Parasocial Relationships
every.to
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The Social Media Trap
perell.com
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Your Idea Is Brilliant, Your Idea Is Worthless
stonemaiergames.com
“Fantasy Hollywood” — Crypto and Community-Owned Characters
future.a16z.com
15 Ways the World is being Transformed by DAOs
blog.aragon.org
24 Hours
blog.rwbaird.com
26: I'm back, sort of
nayafia.substack.com
150% APR? How Are DeFi Yields So High?
every.to
A Comprehensive Guide to the Top NFT Avatars
thedefiant.io
A Penny for your Dunk: finding the value of NFTs
www.ranmo.me
A Primer on Prediction Markets
eriktorenberg.substack.com
A Spreadsheet Way of Knowledge
medium.com
A Twitter Addict Realizes She Needs Rehab
www.theatlantic.com
An Unresolved Mystery in Finance - Equity Premium Puzzle
www.youtube.com
Art Blocks NFTs Soar as Savvy Collectors Snap Up Edgy Pieces
thedefiant.io
Axie Infinity broke out. "Playing while earning" is the next liquid mining?
blockcast.cc
Bubba Harkins Made Sticky Stuff for MLB Pitchers for 15 Years. Now He's Speaking Out.
www.si.com
Can Ethereum Be Ultra-Sound Money?
every.to
Changing Behaviour
jax.substack.com
China’s new gaming underclass
www.protocol.com
Could Gen Z Free the World From Email?
www.nytimes.com
Creativity is dead, long live curation
andjelicaaa.substack.com
Customer-Based Valuation
tanay.substack.com
Dan Wang on Mozart, California and Avalon
www.youtube.com
DAO Landscape
coopahtroopa.mirror.xyz
DeepFriedMemes Goodbye Message
docs.google.com
DeFi-ing the rules of traditional finance
medium.com
Digital Footprint
reallifemag.com
DoNotPay: The Robotic Lawyer Fighting For Consumers and Driving Institutional Transparency
jeffburke.substack.com
Drawing pictures of cities
noahpinion.substack.com
Duty Bound
reallifemag.com
EIP-1559: Can Ethereum Replace Bitcoin as Digital Gold?
every.to
Field Study: The Rise of Recommerce
medium.com
Finance as culture
luttig.substack.com
Five Reasons Why Zoom is the Next Big Platform to Launch Billion-Dollar Startups
medium.com
Four ways that VCs evaluate startup pitches
foundercollective.medium.com
Gamers Are Better Than Scientists at Catching Fraud
www.theatlantic.com
Gaming: A Potential Driver of Blockchain Adoption
www.bitkraft.vc
Hip Hop, Blogs and NFTs: Unbundling, remixing, and reintegrating Media
tals.substack.com
How 'solo VCs' are changing the venture game
pitchbook.com
How Aristotle Created the Computer
www.theatlantic.com
How Blackstone became the darling of grill TikTok
www.theverge.com
How fast is too fast?
nbt.substack.com
How Government Learned to Waste Your Time
www.theatlantic.com
How Junior Investors Can Write a Compelling Investment Memo
medium.com
How Pixar Uses Hyper-Colors to Hack Your Brain
www.wired.com
How Social Media Shapes Our Identity
www.newyorker.com
How the Greeks created the first European State
www.youtube.com
How to get your creative work back on track
every.to
How to Go Pro as a Creator
every.to
How to Price Items on F2P Games // Javier Barnes
www.youtube.com
How Two Buck Chuck revolutionized the wine industry
thehustle.co
Inside Airbnb’s ‘Black Box’ Safety Team: Company Spends Millions on Payouts
www.bloomberg.com
Inside TikTok’s Highly Secretive Algorithm
www.wsj.com
Instagram Desktop Redesign
www.behance.net
Interview: Marc Andreessen, VC and tech pioneer
noahpinion.substack.com
Interview: Sam Heath, Head of Retail and CPG, Tim Horton's - by Edward Nevraumont
marketingbs.substack.com
Into the Fediverse
www.michellelim.org
Introducing the Wise Product Roadmap
wise.com
Is It My Body
reallifemag.com
Juul and the business of addiction
www.theverge.com
Multiplayer Media
www.readthegeneralist.com
Netflix (NFLX) To Offer Video Games on Its Streaming Platform
www.bloomberg.com
Netflix's games won't be the Netflix of Games
www.gamesindustry.biz
New post: The New American University
nayafia.substack.com
NoPixel and The New Creator Auteurs
www.masterthemeta.com
Ode to Procrastination
www.theatlantic.com
Penniless: why a Victoria man has gone two decades without money
www.capitaldaily.ca
People Who Brag About Being in Back-to-Back Meetings Deeply Misunderstand Productivity
medium.com
Pinduoduo: Together, More Bull, More Bear, More Fun
lillianli.substack.com
Quarantined to Room 903
www.thesmartset.com
Roadmap: Data Infrastructure
www.bvp.com
Robinhood's Challenge
diff.substack.com
Snowflake: The Righteous Blood Sucker
every.to
Social Media Use and Its Connection to Mental Health: A Systematic Review
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Solipsis Decentralized Metaverse
drive.google.com
Solving the Yeezy Problem
blog.ourzora.com
Strange Case of Dan Loeb and Daniel S. Loeb
cloudvalley.substack.com
SushiSwap Treasury Sale Proposal Draws Community Ire
thedefiant.io
Sushiswap's Phantom Troupe
defiweekly.substack.com
The “thin edge of the wedge” strategy
cdixon.org
The 10,000 Bitcoin Pizza Story, but it's NFTs
www.loop-news.com
The ABCs of DAOs
1729.com
The Billion Dollar Creator
nathanbarry.com
The elegant chaos of WhatsApp stickers
dirt.substack.com
The future of (ads) privacy
www.thepullrequest.com
The Future of Games is an Instant Flash to the past
www.fortressofdoors.com
The Future of Merge Games
naavik.co
The game makers and artists pushing Roblox to its limits
www.theverge.com
The Hype Subsidy – Why Early Hype is Dangerous in Consumer Social
sarahtavel.medium.com
The Incredible Logistics of the Tokyo Olympics
www.youtube.com
The Inner Ring of The Internet
every.to
The Leakage Problem
pedestrianobservations.com
The little frog that has taken over Poland's high streets
notesfrompoland.com
The Most Precious Resource is Agency
simonsarris.substack.com
The Myth of the Myth of the Lone Genius
rogersbacon.substack.com
The New American University
nadiaeghbal.com
The Power of Positive People
www.nytimes.com
The Prevention of Literature
www.orwellfoundation.com
The Promise and Peril of a High-Priced Sleep Trainer
www.newyorker.com
The SaaS Org Chart
sacks.substack.com
The Secrets of GetRichQuickTok
every.to
The Surprising Power of The Long Game
fs.blog
then and now
ava.substack.com
This Chinese Auction Site Is Selling Luxury Items Owned by Criminals
www.insidehook.com
Tiger Global: the technology investor ruffling Silicon Valley feathers
www.ft.com
Tom Sachs: ROCKET FACTORY
medium.com
Twitch Streamers Rake in Millions With a Shady Crypto Gambling Boom
www.wired.com
Unicorn Market Cap, June 2021 (Almost Post-Pandemic Edition)
blog.eladgil.com
Vibe me up, moodboard
dirt.substack.com
Walking as a Productivity System
every.to
We All Have “Main-Character Energy”
www.newyorker.com
What is good retention?
www.lennysnewsletter.com
What Is MSCHF? Inside the Art Collective Selling Sneakers and Streetwear
www.esquire.com
What Social Apps Can Learn from Game Design and Monetization
creatoreconomy.so
What Won’t the Nelk Boys Do?
www.nytimes.com
Why did we wait so long for the threshing machine?
rootsofprogress.org
Why Hams?
blog.floors.cafe
Why the next big consumer platforms are social games
www.bvp.com
With open banking on the horizon, the fintech-SME love story is just beginning
techcrunch.com
writing in public
ava.substack.com
you have what you want
ava.substack.com
Yuval Noah Harari Gives the Really Big Picture
www.newyorker.com
Zero Knowledge
www.notboring.co