Alex Wittenberg

The only real question about all this finitude is whether we’re willing to confront it or not. And this, for Heidegger, is the central challenge of human existence: since finitude defines our lives, he argues that living a truly authentic life—becoming fully human—means facing up to that fact. We must live out our lives, to whatever extent we can,... See more

The most successful protocols are built to be the foundations of countless platforms. Zora is built to be the infrastructure powering millions of NFT marketplaces. Uniswap is built to power exchanges across a variety of apps and wallets that integrate it.The most valuable community tokens will be widely used across organizations as a means of... See more

First, does the startup retain tokens or immediately swap them for dollars? By hodling, the business implicitly operates a hedge fund. Keeping tokens means taking a constructive/long view on those tokens and selling vice-versa. How should the company decide which tokens to hold and which to swap? Should the business hire a full-time analyst to... See more

The leader or driver owns the meeting and the work required during both the pre-meeting preparation phase and post-meeting action items.The leader should be comfortable leading the participants through the agenda items and facilitating discussion.

I’ve stood sentinel, I confess. Feeling at once the draw of the spectacle and the urge to bear witness, knowing, to some degree, the evident limits of both, and trying to embrace my own distinction between, on the one hand, having my attention captured and, on the other, attending to the world. 

We have now all been granted a power once reserved for totalitarian governments. A not particularly industrious fourteen-year-old can learn more about a person in a shorter amount of time than a team of K.G.B. agents could have done sixty years ago. The teen could see who you know, where you’ve been, which TV shows you like and don’t like; the... See more

Things could totally fall apart. But if history is a guide, we’ll wake up a decade from now to a market full of much higher numbers than we can reasonably wrap our minds around today. Some of the new market cap will come from today’s public companies, some will come from today’s private unicorns, some will come from existing startups that aren’t... See more

The aligned quality indicates the organization possesses incentives to overcome common problems of coordination.

To kick-off the meeting, these items should be communicated first: