Emilie Kormienko

Today, web3 is largely web-native. There are almost no widely used mobile-native web3 apps. As Packy McCormick writes, “If web3 is going to be as big as the Internet, which has 4.66 billion users, it’s only penetrated less than 1% of the market.” I believe, if we are to get there, we will first see the emergence of mobile-native web3 applications... See more

Building on an interoperable infrastructure layer makes it easy for platforms to plug into broader content networks, thereby expanding the scale and types of value they can provide their users. A Web3 art gallery, for example, can bootstrap off the artwork users have already created on the blockchain, rather than requiring them to upload art to the... See more

Tokens align network participants to work together toward a common goal — the growth of the network and the appreciation of the token.  This fixes the core problem of centralized networks, where the value is accumulated by one company, and the company ends up fighting its own users and partners.

The coordination headwind is inexorable. It increases super-linearly as: 1. Uncertainty increases; 2. Projects teams get larger and more spread out; 3. A more bottoms up culture.

One of my deepest held beliefs is that creativity, in its many forms, is humanity’s greatest gift, and our most potent source of strength. We’re at our best both individually and as a species when we’re creatively and courageously confronting the world in front of us. The Pattern is the greatest threat to creativity in all its forms. And it's going... See more

The process of learning a new skill or starting a new company or taking on a new adventure of any sort will often appear to be an ineffective use of time at first. Compared to the other things you already know how to do, the new thing will seem like a waste of time. It will never win the 80/20 analysis. But that doesn't mean it's the wrong... See more

C. THI NGUYEN: But I think the most important thing about games is the way they manipulate our agency. The way we enter into this alternate self. And that’s I think where you can see the greatest power of games and their greatest danger. The greatest power of games is that you can explore this landscape of different agencies. The greatest danger of... See more

If you ask working women with families why they step off the leadership track, it’s often not just because of what happens at the office. Rather, it’s because of the combined effect of their daytime job together with their second job of managing the incessant responsibilities of household and family care: what needs to be done, who needs to be... See more

Building relationships was, in parallel with hypothesis generation, the most important part of this phase. I got a strong response to my initial post, which I think was an unintentional effect of spending a lot of time trying to get to know open source developers beforehand. Once I started publishing, those conversations meant that there were a... See more