## Overview

There’s a lot of talk lately about the possibility of a prolonged financial downturn, reminiscent of 2008. 2008 was a difficult time for many people.

### Relevant Articles
- [Why web3 matters](https://cdixon.mirror.xyz/0GBv9WRI-LQE6F4r2gGczG6AVeFlNuvt3HETHZ5A93U)
- [Composability is to software as compounding interest is to finance](https://cdixon.mirror.xyz/Ie8BQeiM1JTJkKISPVaAao88-XVMoHsdUAtcnS9_Jbs)
- [Blockchains are the new app stores](https://cdixon.mirror.xyz/brEszs7HBGmEWouspL8QUm5g68Ppb7kRrkRjbD1T0Zg)
- [Tokens are a new digital primitive, analogous to the website](https://cdixon.mirror.xyz/0veLm9KKWae4T6_H3siLpKF933NSdC3F75jhPQw_qWE)
- [Going from Web 2 to Web 3 - “Your take rate is my opportunity”](https://cdixon.mirror.xyz/RoizwoGS7sh_5xG8rpDOlDyZnJStY6bxR9wSidf2ovU)
- [The web3 playbook: using token incentives to bootstrap new networks](https://cdixon.mirror.xyz/NooXlkyxdtr2-hB8UJCEhK5vz_2CbhgGACmN6_G2FkE)
- [Seven types of NFTs](https://cdixon.mirror.xyz/_OOn7o8hRzcQF8HJYxaQM7a5uMaDeFzBIv6mxpJ_EKI)
- [The internet treats bad business models as defects and routes around them](https://cdixon.mirror.xyz/PYk1fhNK4bBIDLPVpEJVUPprlOEUvf30XMDNLGZPY38)
- [Some reasons to build your startup in web3](https://cdixon.mirror.xyz/ErbgZ1pUsS844obr8J7YPQPfU2Zts_jt0Q0FcSKLaVw)
- [Turning networks into economies](https://cdixon.mirror.xyz/977Uy2b3ZWCNjVdHxeaNC2ecYOUS3VPgS2_PwVddiQ0)
- [Web3 critics misunderstand decentralization](https://cdixon.mirror.xyz/2XjUdNrhoQB40uA3ssTIKNPpDxoW451fVTJ2BaDDNow)
- [How web3 data portability reduces the power of centralized services](https://cdixon.mirror.xyz/Xp_4zNKlLm2Oqg5PjsKZz3sgsOPxefLEl1vCAk3tsmM)
- [NFTs and ownership](https://cdixon.mirror.xyz/bPMrGC2MmQ2Im9Uc7f2NoWd4LLtwXOuPttQqPGLSrCU)
- [The internet is not yet mature](https://cdixon.mirror.xyz/w37g8EOCv7Jf-0AjVWWlMTTY3GaSbpY78Hdcr_fcKCk)
- [Economic loops for startups](https://cdixon.mirror.xyz/pQxqwdh_sgF3GNX27fcGankyFjF0VOz9gdBM9Gdhaik)
- [The myth of "ETH killers"](https://cdixon.mirror.xyz/JKHpuxY1LDEV0ufEU_lCgZAQ7wpDGU0Ki95T0yDmIGw)
- [Usability/monetization death spirals](https://cdixon.mirror.xyz/RKpn1OVxdvVfuHIc_CSCqN74NYN98WMrnAiRV7XL0GY)
- [What’s next in web3](https://cdixon.mirror.xyz/CGrfc6YezvzWXuOEShNvh46y4H4XTQvgYXNkFaZG510)
- [How open lost to closed in web2](https://cdixon.mirror.xyz/oTq_82m_JkCfuTM3ExHenGwEamleXvRP0k6TWGOuHnc)
- [A few common ways new technologies can be misunderstood](https://cdixon.mirror.xyz/PInV_lpZsXg1Mltz62oHOyGRdTszUkkTfvImEo1kFQ0)