Juan Orbea

Traditional tax principles treat many pooled smart contracts and decentralized autonomous organizations as entities. It’s hard to determine what kind of entities they are, who their equity holders are, and how they are supposed to pay taxes, file tax returns and information reports. This article examines the problems with treating smart contracts... See more

Crossroad #1 – What Family You’re Born IntoYou don’t get to choose this one. For better or worse, your family is the fundamental layer of your network topology. Seeing your family through the lens of the network forces model can reveal the hidden depth of that influence.

You might agree that future people matter in the abstract. But it’s this point — that our actions today could meaningfully impact their lives — that might compel you to believe that positively influencing the long-term future should be a key moral priority of a time. This is the idea encapsulated by longtermism.

It’s natural to care about future generations: we may all want the lives of our children and grandchildren to go well, even before they are born. 

Different situations require different ways of navigation.

This mathematical pattern is a power law known as Zipf’s Law.

TIMESTAMPS:0:00 - Intro0:28 - Ali Abdaal’s revenue sources1:20 - Part-time Youtuber Academy, Ali’s high-end course2:03 - Framework: Pricing against the demand curve3:29 - Framework: Vitamins vs Painkillers4:20 - How PTYA can 10x its revenue7:22 - Entrepreneurial Operating Systems8:48 - Ali Abdaal’s book9:07 - The James Clear model: Build in... See more