DAOs 2.0
Jesse Walden outlines the next evolution of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs), discussing how they can move past early coordination hurdles by adopting professional management structures, clearer goals, an...
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The Evolution of the Creator
Rex Woodbury outlines the shift from 'influencer' to 'creator' and explores 'Creator 3.0'—the technologies and synthetic media shaping the next generation of parasocial relationships.
The Race to Capture Value: Cloud Lessons for the AI Era
Draws on cloud-era value capture to predict where value accrues across the AI stack.
Will That Marketplace Succeed?
Framework from platform economists for evaluating whether a proposed marketplace can achieve durable liquidity and network effects.
AI and Agentic Marketplaces: The Next Frontier of Two-Sided Network Effects
Explores how autonomous AI agents and machine learning-driven automation reshape two-sided matching models and standard network effect dynamics.
A Survey of Compute-in-Memory Technologies for AI Acceleration
This paper reviews the progress of compute-in-memory (CIM) chips based on emerging non-volatile memory devices.
The Platformization of Creative Work: A Comparative Study
A comparative analysis of how institutional and algorithmic platform dynamics shape the autonomy and monetization options of creative laborers across different ecosystems.
Demonstrating Algorithmic Quantum Utility on a Superconducting Processor
A landmark article detailing how IBM's quantum processor achieves utility beyond classical brute-force simulation.
How AI Companies Will Build Real Defensibility
Identifies the defensibility levers-network effects, speed, embedding-that AI startups can actually build.
China, Chips, and Moore's Law
How semiconductor supply chains and export controls shape the geopolitical race for computing power.
Hardware-Software Co-Design for Deep Learning
A review of deep learning accelerators and the trends in semiconductor lithography, advanced packaging, and memory interfaces.
The End of Software
A provocative essay proposing that as the cost of writing code drops to zero with generative AI, software will cease to be a viable business model on its own, shifting value to data and distribution.
Generative AI at Work
An empirical study tracking the productivity impacts of generative AI tools within a customer support environment, showing substantial gains for less experienced workers.
GPTs are GPTs: An early look at the labor market impact potential of large language models
A highly cited early analysis of the potential exposure of various occupations and tasks in the US labor market to LLMs.
Different ways to be a layer 2
This article categorizes different L2 scaling solutions and analyzes their decentralization and security trade-offs.
Compute Trends in Machine Learning
An analysis of compute scaling trends in machine learning models, documenting compute inputs of major systems over time.
Scenario Planning for an A(G)I Future
A paper presenting a structured framework for economists and policymakers to prepare for multiple technological and economic trajectories of artificial general intelligence.
Why your super-app strategy will (most likely) fail
Explains why bundling services into one app rarely produces a successful super-app.
The NFX Archives: Foundations for Mastering Network Effects
Curated foundational writings on network effects and how they drive marketplace value and defensibility.
Make Ethereum Cypherpunk Again
An essay discussing the return to cypherpunk roots, privacy, and decentralization values in the Ethereum ecosystem.
The Precarity of Creator Labor in the Platform Era
A scholarly paper analyzing the algorithmic volatility, precarity, and gendered inequalities experienced by contemporary digital creators.
The Rise of the Silicon Valley Small Business
Anu Atluru discusses the hybrid 'Silicon Valley Small Business' (SVSB) archetype, combining Silicon Valley's ambition and tech-savviness with small business financial discipline and autonomy.
Marketplace Liquidity (#75)
Analysis of liquidity as the core metric of marketplace health and how density of successful matches drives value.
The Mechanical Professor
An early, highly read experiment on the personal and economic disruption of newly released ChatGPT, exploring how much of a professor's analytical, creative, and administrative tasks can be successfully offloaded to g...