Explorations of the emerging crypto-economic models and their potential implications
18 Feb 2021 1 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
tl;dr: How to bring new ideas to market. My boss at Sprinklr, Ragy Thomas, used to give me the simplest advice: “Same, but different.” When introducing a new idea, particularly if you are the innovator, you can’t just start with “let me tell you abou...
17 Feb 2021 1 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
tl;dr: Sometimes the burn is the best medicine. I was talking to my former boss, Paul Cimino, the other day. Paul’s a transplanted New Yorker now living in Austin. He said something that has stuck with me since. “Cities are like forests. Sometimes th...
16 Feb 2021 1 minute read 1 comment jer979!!
tl;dr: the day is coming. May as well think about it now. I’ve been thinking about the question of: “what does the world look like after the dollar is no longer the global reserve currency?” Now, that may not happen this year or even this decade,...
11 Feb 2021 2 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
tl;dr: Investing, trendspotting, and timing. My son and I were watching a surfing competition from Hawaii the other day. (Give us a break, it’s Covid season). I’m not a surfer. Never even tried, unless you count boogie boards, but conceptually I unde...
10 Feb 2021 1 minute read 1 comment jer979!!
tl;dr: Ethereum is booming. Can it last? It’s difficult to not love and root for Ethereum. It’s the #2 most valuable cryptocurrency in the world. It’s spawned, literally, billions and billions of dollars worth of innovative products. It’s ushered in...
9 Feb 2021 1 minute read 1 comment jer979!!
tl;dr: the ability to slice and dice asset ownership makes NFTs more appealing than traditional assets over the long term. In Why Liquid Staking is a Game Changer I wrote: In Why Crypto Networks Will Win, I described the “Great Liquidity Unlocking”...
8 Feb 2021 1 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
tl;dr: the next phase of the financial revolution? I’m writing this on the morning after the GameStop run up and the r/WallStreetBets saga. By now, the story has played out, or at least the chapter has, so we’ll see how well this post ages. I didn’t...
4 Feb 2021 1 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
tl;dr: We all have one. What is different is our degree of consciousness about it. My coach, Joe, of Drop the Armor said something to me the other day that really resonated. “If you don’t think you have a morning routine, you are kidding yourself.”...
3 Feb 2021 1 minute read 1 comment jer979!!
tl;dr: All documents will be verified on a blockchain. The ones that aren’t will be the ones you can’t trust. In the years to come, this one will be obvious. Instead of having multiple copies of a document, notaries, or even electronic signature serv...
2 Feb 2021 1 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
tl;dr: the market for self-sovereign security is growing. Why that’s a good thing I probably received 10 forwards and another 10 offline mentions of the story from the NY Times about the guy who was on the verge of losing $200mm worth of BTC. The ide...
