Issue #13 - Cryptomedia, Cult Films, Voltaire House, The Great Unbundling, Public APIs, Deschooling Society, Same Energy, Freddie Gibbs, Pinegrove, & Hope Tala
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February 15, 2021
📰 News
⛓️ What is ‘cryptomedia’?
⛏️ The Great Unbundling by Ben Evans
📽️ A list of the top 50 cult films to grace the world
₿ The story of Voltaire House, an Argentinian hacker house that produced some of the most valuable crypto projects
🌐 What is this ‘Metaverse’?
⚛️ Kevin Kwok on tapping into the right level of abstraction with atomic concepts to build products that win
📈 Notes on the future of Ethereum from Vitalik Buterin
🔮 Emerging cultural trends based on 30+ reports
🍏 You can blame Apple for preventing an internet revolution
🎮 "Game design is such a multidimensional activity that large chunks of the discipline remain unknown territory, even after having shipped many games."
💱 Difficulty in valuing the GDP of the digital economy
👀 Mexico City, where surveillance doesn’t help
🏛️ Telegram continues to grow as it onboards heads of states
🎛️ The moderation war continues as it spreads to new platforms
📱 A look at Infobar, Japan's most iconic mobile phone
📍 Nextdoor is redefining the local media landscape
🎙️ How much does Kid Cudi hum?
💡 ARK Invest: Big Ideas 2021
🍄 Psychedelic stocks are getting gassed up
🕹️ Products
Clay - A beautiful and comprehensive personal CRM
Black Bean Grocery - Asian American online DTC grocer
Kinopio - A very kawaii / cutecore knowledge tool
Public APIs - Find public APIs to use
Beam - A new, browser built with conviviality in mind
Uizard - AI-powered design tool & assistant for non-designers
DALL-E - OpenAI’s neural network that creates images of text
Gods Unchained - A P2E (Play-to-Earn) game powered through NFTs
Kingdom Supercultures - Designed microbial communities that produce the world’s first 0-calorie fermented soda, beers with new flavors, and new yogurt-like smoothies
Seasons - Rental service for designer men’s clothing
Yotta - Saving through playing the lottery
Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich - A still relevant book written in 1971 that critiques the role and practice of education in the modern world
Same Energy - Visual search engine powered by deep learning models similar to CLIP by OpenAI (created by a former OpenAI engineer)
Public Domain - Virgil Abloh’s desktop
Recompose - Become soil when you die
Millions - A startup raised money to give it away
🎧 Music
Freddie Gibbs - Gang Signs (feat. ScHoolboy Q)
slowthai, Skepta - CANCELLED
Pinegrove - "Amperland, NY" - The Movie
Hope Tala, Aminé - Cherries
Khruangbin - Dearest Alfred (MyJoy) – Knxwledge Remix (Official Video)
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