Chris Best

And we solved, I think we solved boredom.

You know, there's no second of your life where you have to not be looking at or thinking about something interesting now if you don't want to.

But that meant that now we live in a world where your attention is actually your last, your scarcest, most valuable resource.

It's literally your life, right?

It's literally the things that you're putting into your mind.

It's how you're spending your days.

It's who you're becoming.

And so...

if there's a way that you could spend that on something that you value more and that helps you become who you want to become more,

that has newly become incredibly valuable.

And if there's an economic engine and a social contract and a set of technology that can unlock you to spend your limited time on this earth, paying attention to things that you actually value and becoming who you want to become.

And for a creative person, if you can do the work you actually believe in, if you can make something that you think is great and make money from it, that's the real underlying value.

And that story is true and important.

And the fact that, you know, the COVID sort of accelerated it and threw some gas on it for a while, it wasn't something that only started to work because of that.

And it wasn't something that stopped working once that ended.

We'll be right back.

I think it's fair to describe it that way.

I think of it as what should come after social media.

But I think that that, you know, we are making that thing.

And the, you know, Notes and the Substack app