Explorations of the emerging crypto-economic models and their potential implications
19 Apr 2021 1 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
tl;dr: on fish and the unexamined life. My original foray into veganism was due to health concerns, but as I got into it, I watched more than my fair share of agenda-driven Netflix documentaries like Forks over Knives, Game Changers, and the lik...
16 Apr 2021 1 minute read 1 comment jer979!!
tl;dr: The difference between the world of today and tomorrow when it comes to signing documents. The recent crypto bull run has led to an explosion of interest in the Crypto Futura Fund. As we get new investors, however, we need to have them fill ou...
15 Apr 2021 1 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
Here’s a terrifying chart I saw on Twitter recently. Sometimes the illusion of growth is more important than actual growth. It pisses me off, but we’re watching the ongoing debasement of the world’s most powerful currency and we’re hoping that...
14 Apr 2021 1 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
“The years wrinkle our skin, but lack of enthusiasm wrinkles our soul.”-Socrates The other day I finished up Adam Grant’s book Think Again and the last chapter had a really interesting concept, which he called “Identity Foreclosure.” It was the idea...
13 Apr 2021 1 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
tl;dr: High gas fees lead to crypto financial innovation. As you get deeper and deeper into DeFi on Ethereum, you run into an obvious, and painful, reality. The number of transactions required to stay current with your positions, claim the rewards yo...
9 Apr 2021 1 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
tl;dr: a humanoid robot known as Sophia created a piece of art and then sold it as an NFT. I’m trying to get my head around what I’m trying to say in this post. The catalyst was an announcement that a piece of art created by “Sophia,” basically a sup...
8 Apr 2021 1 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
We’ve all seen a lot of press lately about people pulling up stakes from San Francisco and the Bay Area to move to places like Austin and Miami. How much of that is true, I really don’t know. At the same time, the defenders of the Bay Area argue that...
7 Apr 2021 1 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
tl;dr: How we think affects how we think. As the host of SingularityNet‘s Decentralized OS video series, I had the opportunity to interview Joel Dietz. Joel is an accomplished person in many rights, a fellow at MIT and the co-founder of Swarm. He is...
6 Apr 2021 1 minute read 1 comment jer979!!
tl;dr: Nietzsche and the choice of obey and command. I have been Nietzsche’s work, Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Or I should actually say…I have been trying to read it. I’ve found the prose to be exceedingly difficult to comprehend, but fortunately, the bo...
5 Apr 2021 1 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
tl;dr: when we see a similar foundation with another, trust is built. I’ve been working my way through Adam Grant’s book, Think Again, which is designed to teach us each how to challenge our assumptions. In Chapter 6, he explores the deep-seated feel...
