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People are the New Platforms - by David Phelps

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In web3, platforms succeed by becoming protocols—which means people succeed by becoming platforms.

Conceived, outlined, and edited by Jad Esber, Nir Kabessa, and David Phelps; written up by David Phelps. *** There is perhaps no more cringe combo of three words. But—god help us all—Zuck is right: “I’ve talked a bunch about how I think that we should design our computing platforms around people rather than apps and I guess that’s sort of what I’m talking about. On phones today, the foundational element is an app, right? That’s the organizing principle for kind of your phone and how you navigate it. But I would hope that in the future, the organizing principle will be you, your…

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