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New Opportunities in the Farcaster Stack
We’re seeing the emergence of a new social graph in real-time: Farcaster. Up until two weeks ago, today’s most popular client (Warpcast) looked, at face…
Feb 12
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How to Find Information
Finding and eliciting valuable information is one of the most useful skills someone can develop. This is an ongoing list of proxies and heuristics that…
Feb 5
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Running the Math on Micropayments
It’s time to try micropayments again. “Again” rightly implies that micropayments have already been tried (and failed). In particular, the idea of using…
Feb 1
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January 2024
How to Retain Top Talent
Before I worked in venture capital, I worked at a firm called Boston Consulting Group. It’s full of great talent (in particular, high-slope young…
Jan 4
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Alana
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December 2023
What Onchain Apps Enable
It sometimes feels like there’s an aversion to embedding elements of crypto into otherwise more traditional types of consumer applications. After all…
Dec 3, 2023
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October 2023
Reading Two Books at Once
I recently wrote about the importance of writing down the non-obvious. The process of writing that essay prompted me to reflect on the things within my…
Oct 31, 2023
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Writing Down the Non-Obvious
Whenever you realize something non-obvious, you should write it down. Non-obvious insights tend to arise when people are either novices or experts. The…
Oct 27, 2023
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June 2023
A Wiki Page a Day
Recently, I started building a habit of reading at least one Wikipedia page a day. It’s been a great way to learn about many random things — from…
Jun 29, 2023
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Two Years in Boston
I just finished packing up my apartment in Boston. I’ve lived in the city for the past two years — my first two years post undergrad — and it’s been…
Jun 23, 2023
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May 2023
Blackbird Makes Me More Excited to Dine Out
One of my new favorite products is from a company called Blackbird, a next-gen loyalty and payments platform for the hospitality industry aiming to…
May 26, 2023
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February 2023
Secret Cities
I’m a big fan of the idea that cities have several, distinct versions of themselves throughout the day, and that a city at 8am may feel completely…
Feb 6, 2023
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January 2023
Cross-Chain Order Flow Auctions
In 2022, crypto infrastructure advanced significantly. Blockspace is now cheaper, more abundant, and more connected than ever. Zero knowledge technology…
Jan 12, 2023
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