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June 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: 7.01.2021)
The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant
The YouTube Revolution in Knowledge Transfer
Cryptonetworks and Cities: Analogies
How hard did Steve Jobs work? Did this change over time?
Stripe: Thinking Like a Civilization
How to Get Rich
What You'll Wish You'd Known
Hey, so, I Think I Fucking Hate the Internet
Reputation - 30,000 Feet
How to Read: Rediscovering books in the digital age
Technology Saves the World
The Cooperation Economy 🤝
Main Street Bets
The "API Mandate" Memo
Proof of stake will not save us
Decentralized Finance: What It Is, Why It Matters
The Rise of the $10 Million Disc Golf Celebrity
How Azur Games grew its hypercasual games to 1.5B downloads
Money Laundry: The Rise of the Crypto Sock Market
Rituals for hypergrowth: An inside look at how YouTube scaled
PleasrDao✨ Genesis: a cartel of $PEEPS that aim to pleas
Instagram Influencer Hushpuppi’s Rise Was Allegedly Fueled by Cyber Scams
r/NoSurf: A Subreddit for the Very Offline
Merlin’s Owl
Audience-First Products
How I got into web3 and crypto space
The Day the Music Burned
What explains the rise of AMMs?
Pivotal Offsite
The future of decentralized finance
The Tinderization of the Internet
Vampire Attack - an attack on liquidity dependent protocols
I spent a day with THE FOUNDERS of AMONG US
Pandemic Progress
Ape Armies and Investor Relations
Kevin Durant and (Possibly) the Greatest Basketball Team of All Time
Don't End The Week With Nothing
Bonding Curves In Depth: Intuition & Parametrization
A Project of One's Own
Building Products at Slack
🦸‍♂️ Mega Marketplaces 🦸‍♂️
Meebits or Bored Apes? NFT Rivalry Pits Commerce vs Community
Reputation in a multi-identity world
Why a Leading Venture Capitalist Is Betting on a Decentralized Internet
Scale: Rational in the Fullness of Time
Unicorn Market Cap, June 2021 (Almost Post-Pandemic Edition)
An Anime Meme Goes Viral On Brazilian TikTok
Why brands like L’Oreal are creating their own TV shows
Reputation in Web3: Ships Built on the Great Flood
What does MongoDB do?
LeBron James’s Agent Is Transforming the Business of Basketball
Data dive: anatomy of a Steam game launch
Why Your Inner Circle Should Stay Small, and How to Shrink It
What We Learned Doing Fast Grants
Creating the Future of Work
The Composability of Identity across Web2 and Web3
Sometimes, paying attention means we see the world less clearly
Accidental Billionaires: How Seven Academics Who Didn’t Want To Make A Cent Are Now Worth Billions
The Next Generation of Community Infrastructure
State of Chief of Staff in Tech — 2021
Scrounging for Hits, Hollywood Goes Back to the Video Game Well
The Globalization Of Venture Capital Investing
Gokul Rajaram on why he doesn't celebrate feature launches
It’s Payday for College Athletes as New Compensation Laws Take Effect
The Rise and Fall of Habbo Hotel
Liquidity Mining: A User-Centric Token Distribution Strategy
Iron Finance Implodes After ‘Bank Run’
Is Convex the YFI killer?
How Netflix could become the 'Netflix of Gaming'
How Bitcoin Works Under the Hood - YouTube
Customers Love Free Stuff ... But That’s Not Your Problem
The Future of Work
Where stablecoins are headed
The Insider Story of Waze
Passport
Evolution of the FWB DAO
The Future of Games Is Instant
we never learn
How Hackers Used Slack to Break into EA Games
Web3 protocols - Faster growth, less funding, and quicker exits that Web2 companies
52 Blue: The loneliest whale in the world
Roasting Startup Pitch Decks