Work, craft, building

One thing that distinguishes the persistent is their energy. At the risk of putting too much weight on words, they persist rather than merely resisting. They keep trying things. Which means the persistent must also be imaginative. To keep trying things, you have to keep thinking of things to try.

Energy and imagination make a wonderful combination. ... See more

If Blackbird succeeds, it will succeed because it builds a product that helps restaurants in the ways that they care about. The technology under the hood is a means, not an end.

but what i find most powerful about hypersub is that it enables followers to derive more than just informational value from creators; it enables followers to derive financial value, as well.

through hypersub's rewards model, followers are incentivized to discover and subscribe to emerging creators in whom they believe. followers, therefore, have a v... See more

Legacy Industrials , or Incumbents, have vertically integrated supply chains designed around older technologies and processes. Deep Tech companies have unproven technologies that, if they work, could be a very powerful building block for many businesses. Vertical Integrators integrate a number of cutting-edge-but-proven technologies; what they need... See more

Don’t work for a company you would not invest money in, because when you are working you are investing the most valuable thing you have: your time.

Blackbird is the first app I’ve used that’s onchain but doesn’t feel like it is. It feels like a restaurant app. I use it to discover places to eat, and to earn loyalty for eating there. Starting today, I’ll be able to use it to pay my tab — automatically, without getting the check — using credit card, debit card, or Blackbird’s $FLY token.

By 2027 crypto has reached over 2 billion users and surpassed $30 trillion in total market value. While I’d prefer to continue postulating on new use-cases and emerging behaviors this technology enables, the goal of this exercise has always been to project the most likely outcome given the priors. The excitement and novelty of new developments thro... See more

The beauty of blockchains and smart contracts is that they are under-explored spaces in which you can look at problems through a news lens – specifically those related to capital formation, coordination and automation.

That’s the difference to me between deep tech and Vertical Integrators. A deep tech company designs a product for optimal performance, taking on the risk of unproven science or technology to do so, while a Vertical Integrator designs a system for optimal performance, taking a risk on the combination of proven technologies.