Work, craft, building

Late last year, I wrote that more great entrepreneurs would build products onchain as the trade-offs for doing so shrunk. Blackbird is the best example of that thesis that I’ve seen. It’s an app I’d use whether it was onchain or off, and a tool that restaurants use even if they’ve never heard of crypto, even if they don’t particularly like crypto, ... See more

We need a new form of capitalism, a contemporary form of capitalism. I would like to add “humanistic” to that equation.

Clarity matters: Being specific and consistent and clear in what you do and what you stand for is challenging work, but worth it. It requires less compromise and a willingness to walk away from all the soft edges that the committee might be insisting on.

We know what the Bat Signal means. We know who’s going to show up, what he’s going to be wearin... See more

The longstanding struggles of digital media businesses drive home the fact that internet-native media requires a fundamentally different business approach. Monetizing content assumes that the value is held in the content itself. Under the physics of infinity – frictionless content creation and distribution – the marginal value of every additional a... See more

By 2028 the NFT landscape has shifted dramatically. While initial iterations of NFTs focused almost exclusively on profile pictures, art and gaming assets, the zeitgeist of NFTs is materially different in 2028. We now view them much more like containers for specific types of composable data to live – be that text, image, video, mapping, movement, l... See more

1. Privy makes it easy to embed wallets that users control but don’t need to think about, right in the app.


2. Base , Coinbase’s EVM-Compatible Layer-2 network, is a cheap, highly performant L2 with the trusted reputation and brand of Coinbase. (Since launching in August 2023, Base has already made upgrades that make the network cheaper and faster, whi

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The more and better tools, the bigger and harder challenges builders can address with them.

It is commonplace to wager on the growth of wallets, accounts, people, videos, memes, art, transportation, media, space, you name it. Financial coordination at-scale is very different from the financialization of everything. The degree to which we gravitate toward shared social experiences has not changed, but the medium has shifted toward digital ... See more

The key insight here is that the "regular" experience is a form of capital – social capital , to be precise. It's valuable to both the restaurant (which benefits from repeat business and word-of-mouth marketing) and the customer (who enjoys better service and status). However, this capital has traditionally been illiquid and non-transferable. You c... See more