The audio quality is seriously impressive. Any plans to add word-level timing maps? For my usecase that is a requirement, so unfortunately I cannot use this yet, but I would very much like to.
I had pretty low expectations when I opened this, but was pleasantly surprised. It's not that the advice was that helpful (I enjoyed the reminder, but I've heard that all before), but simply asking me questions like "can you do successfully do this, once you start?" helped adjust my thinking.
By choosing "I can do this", I remembered that I can
Honestly, a lot more, at least until we get them right.
I think we are going to see a cambrian explosion of crypto social media platforms as people experiment with different incentive structures, and learn what kind of content is created by particular structures.
And building the initial momentum is definitely going to be a big challenge, but one that will be mitigated by the reward system of a community-owned platform. The value of a social media platform is not in the software, but in the social network. With cryptocurrrency-based networks, it will be easier than ever for users to share in the fruits of creating that network.
Contributors will have the option of either being paid directly in ether, or being paid in "community tokens" which can be immediately or later exchanged for ether according to a bancor-style exchange protocol.
Just skimmed through a bit, but I found this particular part comparing modern hyper-communicative society to mental attacks to be interesting
These subtle menticidal forces operate both within the mind and outside it. They
have been strengthened in their effect by the growth in complexity of our civilization.
The modern means of mass communication bring the entire world daily into each
man's home; the techniques of propaganda and salesmanship have been refined
and systematized; there is scarcely any hiding place from the constant visual and
verbal assault on the mind. The pressures of daily life impel more and more people
to seek an easy escape from responsibility and maturity. Indeed, it is difficult to
withstand these pressures; to many the offer of a political panacea is very tempting,
to others the offer of escape through alcohol, drugs, or other artificial pleasures is
irresistible.
Free men in a free society must learn not only to recognize this stealthy attack on
mental integrity and fight it, but must learn also what there is in side man's mind that
makes him vulnerable to this attack, what it is that makes him, in many cases,
actually long for a way out of the responsibilities that republican democracy and
maturity place on him.
Another interesting quote on his Wikipedia page [0]
"And yet one day men will have to grow up. Compared with the long ages of human existence on earth, our civilization is in its infancy. Sooner or later we must be ready to leave the dreamland of childhood, where imagination finds unlimited scope, and take our place in a world of limited freedoms. That world however, can in the long run give us something better than any vision conjured up in childhood." – Total War and the Human Mind, 1944.
