Devin Baker

This means that the dollar tends to be structurally overvalued on a trade balance basis. It trades based on all of the normal fundamentals that other currencies do, but then also has this extra layer of demand at all times, for all these various purposes. Most currencies are primarily used by the country that issues them, whereas the dollar is used... See more

What determines your success isn’t “What do you want to enjoy?” The question is, “What pain do you want to sustain?” The quality of your life is not determined by the quality of your positive experiences, but the quality of your negative experiences. And to get good at dealing with negative experiences is to get good at dealing with life.

The Fat Protocol Thesis is being eroded in real time. Not by a faster L1, but by a growing recognition that value capture lives where demand is native and immediate, not abstract and structural.

Because of the high costs associated with running a Solana validator, you need quite a bit of stake to breakeven (either your own stake or delegated). The SFDP (Solana Foundation Delegation Program) exists to help get validators started and promote a healthy set of operators. This is done primarily with stake matching (up to 100k SOL) and helping... See more

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

When content production is infinite, we’re left asking, “ What is this all for?” An abundance of content leaves us with a dearth of context and meaning. Under the physics of infinity, media doesn’t need to be a vehicle for delivering more content. Instead, it should act as a lens through which we sensemake with content, and as a container for... See more

And now, I think what comes next is real consumer tokens. Tokens that combine the expansive ambitions of top infrastructure projects, with the belief systems, cultural value, and social properties of memecoins. Tokens connected to product and social experiences that people actually care about instead of vaporware. Tokens from projects that are... See more

What is technology? It's

technique

. It's the way we all do things. And when you discover a new way to do things, its value is multiplied by all the people who use it. It is the proverbial fishing rod, rather than the fish. That's the difference between a startup and a restaurant or a barber shop. You fry eggs or cut hair one customer at a time.... See more

1. First, we must accept that there is no absolute truth in social sciences like economics. We believe the opposite of misinformation is not truth, but rather state-controlled information - where narratives are crafted to align with authority, rather than being inherently true or false. One person’s martyr is another’s terrorist; one person's

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