Issue #14 - Ownership Economy, Signaling-as-a-Service, Design for Irrational, Catalog, Alt, Kanye 2049, Lo Village, Black Pumas, & reggie
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March 17, 2021
📰 News
🌐 Social tokens enable cooperative models of business, powered by communities or just one, and giving way to the coined "ownership economy"
📶 That moment when you realize almost everything is signaling and software amplifies the message
🎨 "Designing for the average person is just a race to the bottom" — Here's a concise framework on building consumer products (@sorenwrenn is a B3BOP community member 🎉)
✨ Analysis on today’s youth culture, otherwise the Era of Monomass
🔪 "A new digital kitchen can be opened in an urban center for $50,000, roughly 5% of the average cost of a regular restaurant."
📈 The Generalist turns one of their coverage reports into an NFT via Mirror
🤟 NFTs are disintermediating platforms from creators to getting them back to their core fans, artist respond on how NFTs are influencing their careers, and Scott Belsky shares his take
🧪 But, the current NFT craze is likely a bubble that will become more evident as hype dies down...
🏀 High school basketball takes on a whole new form as Overtime offers top athletes minimum $100k salaries
🎹 Steve Stoute discusses UnitedMasters and a future for indie artists
🖼️ How Art Arrived At Jackson Pollock by Nerdwriter1
🧱 What is creative composability?
🍿 Movie-worthy business story about Mormons and tycoons conning governments out of millions
👖 A quick history on UNION, the iconic streetwear brand and retailer
🐦 You can buy Jack Dorsey's first tweet ever
👟 Sneakers have become an asset class that has created the careers of many resellers, but Nike relationship has been tumultuous to say the least
💭 Scientists can now hack into lucid dreams
🐰 Neopets was WSB before WSB
🔥 One somewhat unorthodox way to create value in an NFT is to buy a unique physical asset, mint an NFT, and burn it
🪑 “If we could have fabricators for everything that we think in our lives, do you understand how great life would be?” — A look back at Pharrell's venture into chair design
🕹️ Products
Catalog - Open markets for music (Built by @brownsvgar, a B3BOP community member 🎉)
ktt2 - Kanye To The 2
Kanye 2049 - The password is the title of any Kanye album
Alt - A portfolio management app for alternative assets
Collabland - Tokenize your community
Showtime - Social network for NFTs
Texts - One inbox for all messages
Maple - A beautiful family management app
Four Sigmatic - A trending mushroom coffee
Special Project - Onlyfans buy everywhere
The Fascination - Discover curated DTC products
Create/OS - Record deal simulator
MetaHuman Creator - Design hi-fi 3-D humans
Nothing - Honestly nothing, but well funded
Unloved - An aftermarket for subscriptions
🎧 Music
Lo Village - Lost in America
Black Pumas - Colors
Navy Blue - Higher Self
MICHELLE - FYO
reggie - SOUTHSIDE FADE
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