Devin Baker

Now, the US gov is shutdown...again. The Treasury hedged this by not drawing down the TGA at all after the last shutdown and in fact added more to it (more liquidity drain).

This is the current air pocket we are facing and it's causing brutal price action. No liquidity for our beloved crypto yet.

However, the signs are that this shutdown will get... See more

Toolmakers are closer to what I’d categorize as actual deep tech. They are solving deeply technical problems in order to give humanity fundamentally new capabilities. They’re often the ones pushing the exponential curves. A company developing a new type of semiconductor, new materials, or more efficient solar cells might fit into this category.

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Once there’s trust, infrastructure, and liquidity, the market always finds a way to extract productive value, even from assets originally meant just to preserve it.

The moment a store of value is secure enough to be trusted, it becomes too valuable to remain idle. It becomes a productive asset. It starts generating yield.

A “40%” allocation within this construct can include investment expressions like AI or culture assets, poker/sports gambling income, biotech IP: these assets transform energy-intensive labor into income without leverage, and high payouts.

If America fails to win technologically, it will lose economically, militarily, geopolitically, and culturally. And the entire world will lose as well.

Basically, what is human dignity made of? If we work together, say, and, even with one look, I make you understand that you are worth nothing and I look down on you, I have killed you. But if I give you regards and respect — out of esteem, responsibility is spawned. Then out of responsibility comes creativity, because every human being has an... See more

While deficits of $1T+ per year, with debt repayments of nearly $1T themselves, people think this is unsustainable short term and will combust. I disagree, there is atleast a 5-10 year runway without the existential crisis, however as I said in TechDollar 1, it will get worse every year, the money printing will exacerbate all the issues internally... See more

The opening Eisenhower spent years agonizing over could have been modeled by anyone with a map and a calendar and enough compute. Simulation compresses whatever it can reach. Human effort migrates to whatever it can't. This is how it has always worked. It will be more true after AGI than before. That is more phases of more games compressed into... See more

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.