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After taking last week off for an off-the-record team outting, we’re back with 5 of our biggest themes from this week’s meetings, as determined by @thelibrarian …🧵

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1/ Aggregator Dilemmas: We discussed web3 social media aggregators and highlighted the importance of context in user experience. The key question was whether an aggregator can recreate the vibes of the individual networks they pull from or if the experience would feel divorced from its origins.

3/ Premium Hikes - The Climate Tax on Insurance: Insurance companies are hiking premiums due to climate risks, essentially imposing a new tax. People are feeling the financial strain as insurers adjust to increased flood and fire hazards, and the team is wondering whether any solutions exist outside of the state-subsidized model in Florida?

4/ Microbiome as a Service: We never actually discussed this. We prompted the Librarian to come up with a non-traditional idea it thought we'd be interested in, and it suggested a service that uses AI to analyze your microbiome and make dietary suggestions.

5/ Weirdathon!: We want to see more unconventional and experimental AI ideas. We discussed hosting a "Weird-a-thon" as a way to draw out creativity and test our own limits of what's possible. The big question was: what should happen there?

2/ Bots Welcome Here: We often complain about the negative effects bots have on experiences inside major social networks, but are there places where we might appreciate their presence? Bots could be especially valuable in helping an application or community overcome its cold start problem.