Alex Wittenberg

But — laughing out loud — Apecoin crucially has nothing to do with these transactions. It is just a fictional currency made by the same company. It’s likely that the value of $APE will go up in times when there is more general demand for or awareness of BAYC. The coin will be the “primary token for the BAYC ecosystem, as well as future Yuga... See more

By changing your avatar to an NFT that you own, you are conveying your enthusiasm for that project, and in turn, the creativity, community, technology, and values that underpin it. A simple PFP change means a lot in the crypto space. 

A second kind of silence is the silence that precedes words, a silence that is a preparation for speech. It involves a patience that deeply considers what ought to be said and how, one that troubles itself over the meaning of the words to be used and proceeds with great care. 

Achieve alignment — getting all stakeholders to agree on a subject.

If we succeed in our mission, the role of technology in people’s lives will never be the same. Technology will be less invasive and distracting, as people learn how to set boundaries and tailor their exposure to information based on what serves them. But technology will also be more intimately intertwined with people’s work and lives, as they give... See more

Belief in future value is often one of the most powerful drivers of demand. Bitcoin has no cash flow, no staking rewards, nothing. It just has the belief that it could be a long term store of value to rival gold. Or more ambitious beliefs like definancialization and hyper-bitcoinization. But it’s all beliefs at the end of the day.

You start to lose someone’s attention at around 20 minutes. Longer meetings should be reserved for all-hands and other more passive, information-sharing type meetings.

In Chalmers’s vision, we would, as Arendt feared, be trapped in a situation wherein we would encounter nothing but ourselves and those things some of us have made. And it would be altogether likely that we would do so while swaths of our common world increasingly became inhospitable to human life. If so, the burden will fall, as it always does, on... See more