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Around the web
Bitcoin as a store of value by Ray Dallio
.New York Times on tracking US Capitol rioters using smartphone location APIs
.The CEO of Nidec (electric motors) predicts a $3,000 car
.Wunderman qual forecasts for consumer moods in 2021
.Twitter introduced Birdwatch, a community-based approach to misinformation
.The future of live events. The coronavirus pandemic has cost the UK news industry more than £2bn in lost events revenue, but the future of events looks more positive as the industry puts into action lessons learned during lockdown.
“I don’t think we’re ever going to go back to where we were before, in the sense that the product will be different. We’re never going to let go of that digital piece.”
On the other side of the spectrum: The Challenge of Virtualizing Trade Shows and Exhibit Halls
There’s no such thing as a virtual exhibition, said Jochen Witt during a Web Summit 2020 panel discussion in December. “It’s nonsense. It does not exist. An exhibition is feel, taste, smell, touch. It’s not possible virtually, it’s not possible digitally. Did you ever take a digital swim or a virtual meal?”
Twemex (Twitter extension) - this adds a sidebar to Twitter that automatically shows more context about the user or tweet you're currently viewing.
As Adobe Flash stops running, so do some railroads in China
Tuesday’s chaos arose after China Railway Shenyang failed to deactivate Flash in time, leading to a complete shutdown of its railroads in Dalian, Liaoning province. Staffers were reportedly unable to view train operation diagrams, formulate train sequencing schedules and arrange shunting plans.
Be Yourself, Not a Niche
Choosing a niche is great for quickly building an audience. If you brand yourself as "The SEO Expert" or "The Crypto Guy" you’ll have an easier time gaining followers. If someone sees your profile, they'll know exactly what they're getting, and if they're interested in that topic, they'll follow along.
You lose that advantage when you try to just be yourself. The audience will come much slower. You might pop up in someone's feed and they'll wonder, "why would I follow this person?"
But what you lose in speed you gain in durability. If people follow you for hot Crypto takes, they'll replace you with the next clever Crypto tweeter who shows up in their feed. They never really cared about you. They cared about the topic you talked about.
Not a Full-Time Creator
The most interesting writers and "thought leaders" to me are the ones who are out doing something, and then use what they're working on to influence their writing and other media. The problem with being a full-time creator is you have to start caring about the business of what you create. When you primarily make money from your following, you are no longer as free to say whatever you want or create whatever you want to create.
Paul Graham is an incredible writer partially because he's entirely free to say whatever he wants. He has more fuck-you-money than he could possibly know what to do with, so if he pisses off a million people on Twitter it doesn't really matter.
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