A world without Caesars

Ok new social media equilibrium is in for me now. X, Warpcast out. Doubling down on Substack and BlueSky. Let’s see how this ends up.

Have we figured out why people who are already minted work so much and don’t cash out their surplus capital into leisure time yet? Is it peer group status competition? Capitalism surfacing a never ending set of desirable goods that are just out of reach? They just love work?

Will AI actually preserve bullshit jobs because the substantive work, which I define as primarily about producing high quality deliverables, will be done by AI? So all that’s left is actually the signaling stuff?

You read Sapiens or The Beginning of Infinity while your friend reads Brothers Karamazov and Ted Chiang.
Your reading lists are different but you’re both interested in similar things. I try to explore the two schools of inquiry underpinning this:
https://tangential.beehiiv.com/p/impressionism

BlueSky has been a great way to internalize the early adopter advantage. Showed up here to a following comparable to my 500+ tweets twitter account 🤣

Very timely new piece from Rushabh on his model of tech acceleration! Foundational piece for his upcoming series on Tangential: https://tangential.beehiiv.com/p/timeline-accelerating

systems are made up of both code/technology and people/culture. neither one fully determines the other, but their interplay shapes outcomes!

Social web as protocols rather than platforms harkens back to the early web, a web I’m frankly too young to know. This is often framed as web3 vs web1. Almost like a web1 protocol style unbundling of web2 platform innovations and modes of engaging. What’s missing?

Wow Twitter alt #3. Hello world!