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#279 – Staying Indie vs Raising VC, Getting an MBA, and Disrupting the App Store with Emma Lawler of Velvet

Indie Hackers

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The Importance of Balance

I think it's hard to have like too many huge long-term goals and actually do them effectively. Technology innovation leads to growth in capitalism so there's something there that creates the stratification at either end of society. I don't think technology taking people offline is as good for human health or happiness as optimizing for number of likes you know engagement ad dollars etc. What would be more exciting than a digital native person who can also use all of the tools that were created by technology? A coffee shop where they meet up with their friends instead of going back to work every day. The world inside my body is just like floating in a metaverse where my body is my body is Metaverse

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