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13 Jul 2020 1 minute read 2 comments jer979!! $0.07
tl;dr: a new crop of financial ratings firms is emerging in the crypto industry. A sign of maturation. There are traditional finance metrics like EPS, EBITDA, etc. for assessing the value of traditional organizations. Then, there are crypto-native fi...
10 Jul 2020 1 minute read 0 comments jer979!! $0.01
tl;dr: Allowing for randomness fosters creativity. The location, whether physical or digital, is what matters. One of the observations I’ve seen about the downsides of remote work is the lack of “random” interactions. You know, the kind that happen s...
9 Jul 2020 3 minute read 1 comment jer979!! $0.02
tl;dr: When the Internet is centralized at chokepoints, nation-states can engage in digital war games. India v. China in Round 1. I’ve long been concerned about the depths of penetration into American and Western society that TikTok has acquired. As...
8 Jul 2020 2 minute read 0 comments jer979!! $0.01
tl;dr: Success isn’t difficult. It’s easy. Focus is difficult. Thoughts from Thomas Edison. All the way back in the pre-Covid world of December 2019, I had a post called “Sun Tzu and Why Growth is a Function of Momentum”. My not so earth shattering c...
7 Jul 2020 2 minute read 0 comments jer979!! $0.02
tl;dr: Changing to a knowledge economy mindset has a few shifts. The cultural paradigm of the definition of “work” is one of the biggest. Yesterday, I shared the idea from my brother (the zen storage person at Dell) that the ideal place to be in a Kn...
6 Jul 2020 2 minute read 0 comments jer979!! $0.01
tl;dr: Exploring the concepts of work based on knowledge, not time. My brother, who is referred to as a “Cloud Storage Zen” leader at Dell, was over the other night. We were talking about the Knowledge Economy. It was Peter Drucker, I believe, w...
3 Jul 2020 3 minute read 0 comments SylarHeisenberg $0.02
In this day and age, any business that wants to thrive must go online. With so many things going on around the world, and global changes that will forever impact the way people live and do business, going online is no longer just an option. Not only...
2 Jul 2020 3 minute read 0 comments jer979!! $0.02
tl;dr: Reimagining the world of securities lending when smart contracts work at scale and we all keep more of our money. There was an article in the June 10th edition of the Wall Street Journal entitled, How Investing Giants Gave Away Voting Power Ah...
2 Jul 2020 2 minute read 4 comments Brand Tokens $0.04
What's wrong with loyalty schemes these days? Practically everything you buy has a different loyalty scheme attached to it. You purchase your groceries, swipe your loyalty card, and throw it back into your purse or wallet. Or how about that latte wit...
1 Jul 2020 3 minute read 0 comments jer979!! $0.05
tl;dr: Has behavioral economics inspired marketing run its course? The Austrian school of economists make the case that it has and offer an alternative. I’ve been exploring the concept of “crypto-marketing” for almost five years now. All along, I tho...
