The Nemesis Guide to Being Early *Summer ‘24 Edition*

We don't have enough experience with early versions of ambitious projects to know how to respond to them. We judge them based on where they are currently, not based on what they could become. The same is true for how we judge people. Someone should create a Substack newsletter called Early Days where they use Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine to t... See more

There’s a peculiar thing where oftentimes it’s the wildly optimistic predictions that end up being right. Such predictions seem entirely crazy at the time—it feels like betting on everything going absolutely perfectly. On the contrary, they are betting on “unknown unknowns” which will meaningfully change the game.

As we move into this post-money crypto era, we’re going to start to pick up all the complexities of human sociality, and now more than ever, we need to adopt a critical stance to the directions we move in as a community.