Explorations of the emerging crypto-economic models and their potential implications
18 Mar 2021 2 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
tl;dr: Reconnecting with classic Drucker to come back to center on effective execution. There are two books I keep in my studio at all times. One of them is The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker. I don’t read it all the time or nearly as frequentl...
17 Mar 2021 1 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
The whole point of having a blockchain as the core ledger of a system is to instill trust at the very heart of the application. In our current systems, trust is assumed or granted to a 3rd party and we hope that it won’t be compromised (ahem: Equifax...
16 Mar 2021 1 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
tl;dr: Saving ourselves from the ravages of climate change may not be so difficult after all. Almost everything we hear about climate change is dark and depressing. It can feel hopeless. Which is why the Netflix documentary, “Kiss the Ground” is a we...
15 Mar 2021 2 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
tl;dr: the global micro-brand comes to crypto. Over a decade ago, I taught a series of classes for Microsoft on “Building Your Global MicroBrand.” The slides are probably sitting somewhere on my LinkedIn profile. I didn’t invent the idea of the Globa...
12 Mar 2021 2 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
tl;dr: where cryptoeconomics and politics will intersect. Cynthia Lummis is a first-term Senator from Wyoming. She has made waves within the crypto community because she is the first politician to openly hold Bitcoin. There are a few others who are p...
11 Mar 2021 1 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
tl;dr: the danger of reinforcing old thought patterns I wish there were a way for me to save my current list of Twitter followers to a backup file. Like a “snapshot” of a hard drive for a future restore point. The reason that I want to do that is tha...
10 Mar 2021 1 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
No, you won’t. If you start a question or presentation by saying “I’ll be brief,” you’ve already said more than necessary. So, by definition, you’re not being brief. Instead…be brief.
9 Mar 2021 1 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
tl;dr: a reminder to myself that, when all is said and done, we’re all betting on each other. I was reading Chris Dixon’s blog post about A16Z’s new investment in Optimism, which is a Layer 2 solution for the congestion and thus fee problem that the...
8 Mar 2021 1 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
tl;dr: the riches are appealing, but the bad guys are everywhere. When you look at the interest rates you are getting in your TradFi bank account, it can become pretty compelling to go over to a place like Origin and get a USD equivalent return of >2...
5 Mar 2021 1 minute read 1 comment jer979!!
tl;dr: Musings on China’s level of threat to the US and the dollar. Loyal blog reader Mark sent me a thoughtful response to the post How the Fed May Be Accidentally Ending the Dollar. He writes: “The death of the dollar is currently being paved in...
