Hey there 👋 ,
Welcome to Digital Native! I’m Rex. By day, I work as a partner at Index Ventures and by night, I write about tech and startups. Every Wednesday morning, you’ll get a piece straight to your inbox.
What to Expect:
I’m fascinated by how technology and culture intersect. Each week, I’ll write about this intersection, exploring the trends and startups changing how we live and work.
To give you a taste, below are some of my recent pieces grouped by theme:
Gen Z
🫠 Minions and Gen Z Characteristics
💀 It’s Gen Z’s World, and We’re Just Living In It
🔥 Lil Nas X Is Gen Z’s Defining Icon
Creators
🎨 The Art of the Deal: How Money Shapes Art
🔨 The Cambrian Explosion in Software and Content
Internet Culture
🔪 The Internet Killed Mainstream Culture
🪞 The Two-Way Mirror of Art and Technology
💙 Digital Kinship & the Loneliness Epidemic
The Metaverse
🌐 Reality Privilege and Living Your Life Online
🔮 The Rise of Synthetic Media & Digital Creators
🐯 How Neopets Paved the Road to the Metaverse
Gaming
🎮 Digital Economies, Gaming, and IP Legos
💵 The Deceptive Complexity of Axie Infinity’s Digital Economy
⛓ Blockchain Gaming and On-Ramps to Mass Adoption
Web3
💼 Nomadland, Banksy, and Our Web3 Future of Work
🤫 Most People Won’t Know Web3 Exists
Consumer Social
😜 Myspace, Tumblr, and the Long-Lost Weirdness of the Social Internet
🪐 What China’s Soul Tells Us About the Future of the Social Internet
💄 The Rise of Cash App and Vertical Social Networks
And if you want to read one piece tying together many of the topics I write about, check out Throughlines or this video recap from December 2021:
You can also join the Digital Native community on Discord, if you’re looking to meet people with similar interests and riff on these topics: