📡 Your Superpower ☄️

Pulse #132 — Your uniqueness; authenticity.

Apr 18, 2021

Naval calls it “specific knowledge” and I think that’s very specific — and very good. It’s one of those things that you pursue because it makes you happy.

Now, think about how great it would be if it could’ve become your career… A career of being yourself; getting paid to be yourself… how great would that be?

I think if you find that specific knowledge [or superpower] - or figure it out - you’d be unstoppable ‘coz it’s all about that extra mile that others don’t go; and if you’re genuinely interested in something or curious about it, you will.

Will definitely talk about this later…

sorry i didn’t get here in time… if i could have a week of 48-hour days, i would… it’s been a hectic week… hopefully, it’ll calm down…

News

Two die in Tesla crash with no one at the wheel [link]
Facebook plans to go after Clubhouse — and podcasts — with a suite of new audio products [link]
Edward Snowden’s NFT sold for $5.5 million at auction for charity [link]
Charles Geschke, co-founder of Adobe and co-inventor of the PDF, has died at 81 [link]
Google introducing a feature in Chrome 90 to create links to highlighted text on a webpage [link]
Elon’s taking everyone to the moon, Apple’s throwing shade at Spotify, and Amazon’s taking a shot at Ikea [link]
Apple and Samsung announce events in April, Android 12, and LG’s rollable TV [link]
Acquisitions spree, chip manufacturing, and Apple’s witness at the US Senate [link]

🐱 a gift for you.

Worth Your Attention

The Potential of Blockchain Technology [Chris Dixon on Patrick O’Shaughnessy’s Invest like the Best podcast]

if you’re interested in crypto and tech - even a little bit - this is a great episode to listen to. i think this is one of the most interesting areas for investing and building over the next 10 years.
PS. Chris Dixon is a general partner at a16z.

Chart of the Week

Two Trillion Dollars Worth of Crypto

cryptoverse market cap — Credit: Statista

The market cap of cryptocurrencies exceeded 2 trillion US dollars as of April 15, 2021. Bitcoin - by far the biggest cryptocurrency - makes up around half of that, while the next biggest coin, Ethereum, accounts for around 13 per cent.
Smaller players in the crypto market are Binance Coin (85 billion US dollars) and XRP (78 billion US dollars).
All these currencies experienced a significant increase in value over the last 6 months and are now worth six to seven times their October value.

& more stats

Mobile’s share of website visits continues to increase. Some 61% of site visits in the US came via mobile phones in 2020, up from 57% in 2019 [link]
Boston Consulting Group’s annual ranking of the 50 most innovative companies [link]
How much are US brands using Amazon and Amazon advertising? [link]
US retailers could shutter tens of thousands of stores even after the pandemic subsides [link]
Piper Sandler’s regular survey of US teenagers. Close to 90% have an iPhone. [link]

Tools & Apps

JS Image Carver: Content-aware image resizer and object remover

pretty handy

Timelapse in Google Earth: Watch time unfold and witness 40 years of planetary change

this is fascinating…

My Audio Blogs: Discover blogs with audio

another take on the audio as a medium…

Spotted

Twitter is working on changing the tweet layout on timeline [link]
How sponsored fleet looks like [link]
Facebook Messenger keeps working to support WhatsApp chats [link]
Twitter is working on the ability to adjust the duration of the Undo Tweet timer: 5 / 10 / 20 / 30 seconds [link]
TikTok is working on the ability to manage multiple comments at the same time [link]
Instagram keeps working on the “Busts in silhouette Collab” sticker [link]
Instagram keeps working on end-to-end encrypted chats (E2EE) [link]
Twitter is working on monochrome primary colour and switching the UI font to their new “Chirp” font [link]
Instagram is working on a new sticker: “Shopping bags Good ideas deserve to be found” [link]
Instagram keeps working on the new “❤️ Love” sticker [link]
Microsoft is working to support the direct reply action in Outlook for Android [link]
Google Photos is working on search result refinement filters [link]
Medium continues working on an e-book reader, on both web and mobile [link]
Instagram is working on a redesigned IGTV video player [link]