Emilie Kormienko

  DeFi refers to “decentralized finance,” an effort to transform the financial-services industry by making transactions faster, cheaper, and more secure.

Like a wildfire after years of drought, The Pattern is spreading through our digital commons, and seeping into the hearts and minds of humanity. The Pattern is stifling our creative potential. It is poisoning our culture. And it is standing in the way of our ability to live well and flourish.

There’s nothing wrong with spelling things out in detail for people if your product needs to be complex, but remember that the longer the onboarding process, the more necessary it will be to show new users some form of progress throughout it.

It’s trial and error or it’s working with people you already know and trust in a business context. Cliché as it sounds, you’re not going to find the right team, if you don’t know yourself – but that’s way too philosophical for this memo. Understand how you work and how you like people to perform under pressure. Set the culture of the business... See more

Modern culture, from refined sugars to social media, disrupt our body budgets, leading to compounding negative effects.

Cultivate better co-founder relationships: Once every six weeks, all three Roman founders get together out-of-office for the entire day for a North Star meeting. It’s a no-computer all-day meeting where they analyze the past, present and future of the company with an agenda-driven conversation.

I am convinced we are in the midst of a paradigm shift. That what used to hold us in community no longer works. That the spiritual offerings of yesteryear no longer help us thrive. And that, just like stargazers of the sixteenth century had to reimagine the cosmos by placing the sun at the center of the solar system, so we need to fundamentally... See more

Make sure to keep up physical exercise: Every Friday before work, Reitano and Roman’s third co-founder Rob Schutz go for a lap swim.

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