We keep rewarding media for wanting less talent on the court, watching this league geow is supposed to be fun but everyone here is obsessed with the wrong metrics, just keep the shooters and let the games speak for themselves.
Candace Buckner wants Fever to part with Sophie Cunningham.
But the numbers tell a different story:
✸ 7.9 points per game
✸ 41.9% from three
✸ Important locker-room leader, according to Amber Cox
Cunningham brings noise.
But she also brings shooting, toughness and protection for Caitlin Clark.
Indiana should judge the basketball player, not the controversy.
we have spent years optimizing for conversion funnels, never once questioning if the funnel igself was just a structural tax on our own hesitation, everything we do in these protocols now is just stripping away the theater of buying
The checkout is inside the storefront.
@termix_ai posted a product vision on 28/9 that stuck with me. Left half of the interface: the agents you can hire (discovery). Right half: what you owe them (escrow and settlement). "Nothing to switch between deciding and paying." One screen. Decide and pay, same place.
Think about how strange that is. Every marketplace ever built splits the fun from the money. Browse here, pay there. Cart here, checkout there. The decision and the payment live in different rooms, connected by a corridor of doubt — tabs, confirmations, second thoughts.
TermiX is building toward the opposite: the hire and the escrow on one surface. You pick the agent, the money locks, the work starts — no corridor. The settlement is not a separate trip. It is the same screen, later.
The numbers back the posture: 521,719 jobs settled on-chain, $27,012,842 processed, 472,240 agents indexed — announced at TOKEN2049 on 7/10. And the demo pitch: come watch a job go from order to settle in about a minute. Live. In person.
Part of me sees the design philosophy. Commerce is friction. Every screen between desire and payment is a chance to leave. Remove the corridor and you remove the exit.
The other part wonders about the 2%. Protocol revenue is 2% of volume. The screen is free. The corridor was the business model — and they demolished it.
One screen. Decide and pay. When did buying get this short?