Google founder and computer scientist Larry Page said any law more than fifty years old has to be re-examined. Any law written before the internet needs to get re-examined, or it’s going to collapse.

I lie awake at night and think, Okay, here’s what I’ve learned today. How does that fit into my broad collection of ideas? Where are the contradictions, overlaps, and so on? Most people do not do this. They just compartmentalize. They’ll learn something, but they won’t try to propagate it through other things they know to see if it conflicts with o

As jobs become more automated, investing may become the most common “job” of the twenty-first century. The 1800s was about farming, and the 1900s was about manufacturing. This transition toward everyone investing may already be quietly underway.

If the purpose of technology is to reduce scarcity, then the ultimate purpose of technology is to eliminate mortality.

When you put information online, you get distribution, sharing, collaboration, etc. When you put it on-chain, you get immutability, verifiability, monetization, etc. On-chain is not suitable for everything, just like you don’t put everything online. Putting something on-chain is a stronger version of putting it online.

If you are what you eat, then you think what you see.

At each stage of life, I used my current skill and applied it in a new domain to learn another skill. I never started completely at zero; I was always building from a previous skill.

We all like to think we’d have put $25k into Facebook in ’04. In hindsight, we all believe we’d take the risk and get in early. Yet, another risky early opportunity is in front of you today. Now digital currency as a category removes excuses for not trying.

Today we have ninety-year-old laws wielded by seventy-year-old people to prevent twenty-somethings from using twenty-first century technology.