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Lessons From a Recovering Founder
It's never too soon to recall what's important.
The Internet is Dying, and It's Going to be Okay
Some observations on how the internet has felt lonelier and darker.
Everything I Wish I Knew About Hiring
Hiring for a startup is an important lift — treat it like one.
Joining Ethereal Ventures
Announcing my role as Head of Portfolio and Platform at Ethereal Ventures.
Protostructure, Superstructure, Hyperstructure
As protocols develop toward decentralization, governance typically evolves in three phases over time.
Quickstarts Are Recipes — Developers Are Bakers
Quickstarts focus on demonstrating what software can do for developers seeing it for the first time.
Entrepreneurial Nihilism
On realizing there's more to life than work and that feeling fulfilled personally leads to better outcomes.
Economies of Control
Building a great economy is more important than focusing on building an open economy.
Product-Led Blockchain Development
We're in an age of infrastructural abundance, and an age of no excuses.
Product Builders Are Screenwriters
You're supposed to be creating an experience that both provides value and is compelling.
Green Leaves
Giving users control over their digital selves went from a passion to an idea and, finally, the mission of SpruceID.
Party On, TCR Party
TCR Party may have been finally taken down by the Twitter API, but it still lives on in our hearts.
On Power in Blockchain Systems — A Brief Overture
The importance of understanding power dynamics in the blockchain space is quite understated.
Bitcoin as Pascal's Wager
"Bitcoin is, or Bitcoin is not." But to which side shall we incline?
On DeFi and OpFi
Your DeFi might be OpFi.
On the Social Contract of Tezos
— But do you know what a nation means? says John Wyse.
On Abstraction and Risk
Abstraction is a key component to the mass adoption of cryptocurrency.
On TCRs and Predictions Markets: Counterweights and Collusion
How do we rule out the manipulation of a predictions market with an extremely narrow, individual focus?
The WarLock: Building in Additional Rewards for Network Effects
A unique token distribution model building on NuCypher's WorkLock.
On Fair Token Launches
What is a Fair Launch?
On Value Capture at Layer 3
How layer 1 and 2 protocols capture value, and what happens at the application layer.
On Governance: Futarchy
Estragon: Perhaps he could dance first and think afterwards.
On Governance: Coordination, Layers, and Structural Integrity
A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
Work for Sale — Bootstrapping Security Through Network Protection
Opportunities arise from time to time that almost don't accord with the overall situation.
Stop Saying "Decentralized" — A Plea for Purging
Originally syndicated on Token Daily.
Futility Tokens: A utility-based post-mortem
Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
Appended or Intelligent, Functional or Non-Functional — Continued Thoughts on Utility Tokens
"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better." ~ Samuel Beckett
Progress vs. Process — Thoughts on Utility Token Valuations and Their Future
The first in a series of posts detailing the future of "appended" tokens and intelligent design.