Explorations of the emerging crypto-economic models and their potential implications
27 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
tl;dr: first, it was the techies, then it was the tech savvy. Now it’s the financiers. Bitcoin has officially crossed the chasm. My partner at the Crypto Futura Fund recently gave a presentation on the mainstream adoption of Bitcoin. If a picture is...
25 Nov 2020 5 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
tl;dr: what holds us back and what pushes us forward. I’ve been thinking and feeling fear lately. I’m sure some of it has to do with the annus horribilis that 2020 is, but some of it is my own attachment to “success’ as the metric which I judge my li...
24 Nov 2020 2 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
tl;dr: Not investment advice here, just an observation from what I hear often. There was an article in the November 13th WSJ called “Deposit Interest Rates Are Taking a Pandemic Nosedive” It begins: “Banks are paying a pittance on deposits, but cust...
23 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
tl;dr: a rumination on behaviors that remain or go post-Covid. Fred Wilson had a post the other day called “The Covid Rotation” which followed Pfizer’s vaccine-related announcement. He began to speculate as to what new behaviors would remain in a “po...
20 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
After reading my post The Covid Cost to Creativity, Never Stop Marketing’s CEO, Donny Dvorin sent me a note. “James Altucher talks a lot about working your “idea muscle.” Everyday you make a list of 10 ideas about anything. Carlos [NSM’s head of ma...
19 Nov 2020 2 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
tl;dr: modern management theory is starting to sound like cryptoeconomic network design. Now that I’ve spent a fair amount of time exploring and living in the Crypto Futura, developing numerous theories and ideas about what the characteristics of tha...
18 Nov 2020 2 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
tl;dr: Ocean Protocol may end up being as big as the ocean. My current crypto love affair, aside from Nexus Mutual, of course, is Ocean Protocol. I’ve blogged about Ocean recently a few times, including A Digital Maritime Strategy and the Need for Op...
18 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
tl;dr: when the practice is the game. Sports fans are familiar with the (in)famous Allen Iverson “Practice” rant. The meme has become one that Iverson was saying “practice doesn’t matter.” As it turns out, according to ESPN’s 30 for 30 documenta...
16 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
I lived in Germany during the 1995-1996 school year. While I was there, in addition to my studies at the University of Frankfurt, I had an internship at the local Merrill Lynch office. One of the brokers there was an expat American, former Air Force...
14 Nov 2020 1 minute read 1 comment jer979!!
tl;dr: You can’t always get what you want. Thoughts on deciding. I’ve been thinking about trade-offs recently. One of the challenging parts of aging is the undeniable reality that things for which we hoped in our younger years are just not going to h...
