Recommendations kills Favorites: AI-driven recommendations transcend our historical go-to’s.

The Era Of Multiple Identities: We Discover, Embrace, & Express Our Multiple Selves

we’ll look back and realize that compiling and repeatedly leveraging a list of “favorites” was complacency

Life is short, and the more we limit ourselves to “favorites,” the less likely we are to discover better experiences. AI does this.

I firmly believe that professional fulfillment will increasingly be the result of feeling fully utilized.

The desire to generate income and feel fulfilled from multiple projects will increase retention

Brands are now collectively determined by the content generation of the masses as opposed to a creative agency and a nationwide ad buy.

we still crave the ancestral “small town” of reputation and brands built on trust. The consensus in real-time from individuals on social media is powerful.

We all want to be known, but the benefits must exceed costs.

“ads” conjures up the era of annoying banner ads and pop-ups. But “personalized experiences” are the new advertising, and most of us would prefer it whether we admit it or not.

technology at its best takes us back to the way things once were — but with less friction and at a far greater scale

We’ll want ai-driven immersive experiences to know us well, but not at the expense of our security and comfort. As always (at least in my mind), design is the solution.

There is a generational shift in values and trade-offs: people would rather work together with greater latency than work faster alone.

The last era of social networks tolerated and (at best) accommodated pseudonyms, but the next era of social networks will be optimized for the fact that every participant will have multiple identities.

It made me realize, perhaps true meritocracy of ideas is only possible without the historical anchors and biases of a singular identity