Chris Dixon

@cdixon.eth

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Is Napoleon worth watching?

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Today’s announcement that Farcaster is now a fully permissionless protocol is a step towards a future of decentralized social networks that I believe will be better for users and other network participants. Here’s why.

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Submitted the book to the publisher today. I looked back and it was 10 months to the day I started writing it. Took significantly more time than I expected (calendar months but also hours per day). It was an interesting process. I learned a lot and it sharpened my thinking on the topic. Would recommend :)

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Oppenheimer was great. 10/10

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For the last 12 months I’ve been working on a book. I’m excited to talk about it for the first time today.📘 Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet (March 2024, publisher: Random House) Pre-order here: https://readwriteown.com/

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Interesting that Apple is going with spatial. Spatial vs metaverse vs virtual worlds vs 3-D Spatial and 3-D sound a little more device-related vs metaverse and virtual world more network-related

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Excited for Apple VR.

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Excellent post from @milesjennings breaking down different aspects of decentralization https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/decentralization-factors-web3-protocols-tables/

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Asking users to pay (and go through UX hassles) to register domain names is not a mainstream user experience. It was tried many times including with RSS and didn’t work. If your protocol design relies on it, it won’t scale. Centralized intermediaries will step in to streamline as Twitter et al did with RSS.

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Tenet might be Nolan’s only bad movie? I tried rewatching it this week. The time inversion stuff just takes too much work to understand, and also the acting seems off?

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Humor explained via machine learning and evolutionary adaptation (from https://books.google.com/books/about/Inside_Jokes.html) https://i.imgur.com/iAfRjV1.jpg

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I switched to Bing a few weeks ago and I’d say it’s significantly better than Google. Same quality results (I cross check them occasionally) and far fewer ads.

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Social networks need global name spaces to get mainstream adoption.

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Meta Quest Pro 👍 Best AR I’ve seen

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To those who say toxic culture is inevitable in scaled online communities: I’d say the web and email are doing well. There is toxic stuff of course but also sufficient tools to screen it out. Architecture matters.

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What’s the best fiction book you read recently?

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If only there were a system for storing information in a way that is persistent, reliable, permissionless, decentralized, programmable, & free and fast to read 🤔

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🤔 https://atproto.com/specs/did-plc https://i.imgur.com/8rE8Ntt.jpg

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What are your favorite podcasts for learning? Science, tech, philosophy, arts, etc

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Computer don’t solve problems. Kitchen appliances solve problems. Computers unlock human creativity by empowering software developers (who might then, among other things, solve problems). “Computers are bicycles of the mind” - Steve Jobs

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