Marcel Mairhofer

The key to understanding the limits to our knowledge (circle of competence) is to check the results of our decisions against what we thought was going to happen and why we thought it was going to happen. That feedback loop is incredibly powerful because our minds won’t provide it by themselves
Not all decisions need to be journaled. Decisions of... See more

Doing the work required to hold an opinion means you can argue against yourself better than others can. Only then can you say, “I can hold this view because I can’t find anyone else who can argue better against my view.”
The ability to destroy your ideas rapidly instead of slowly when the occasion is right is one of the most valuable things. You... See more

During the first era of the internet — from the 1980s through the early 2000s — internet services were built on open protocols that were controlled by the internet community.


During the second era of the internet, from the mid 2000s to the present, for-profit tech companies — most notably Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon (GAFA) — built software

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A list of crypto readings and resources (2018-2019). It’s organized from building blocks and basics; foundations (& history); and key concepts — followed by specific topics such as: 

• governance; 


• privacy and security; 


• scaling; 


• consensus and governance; 


• cryptoeconomics, 


• cryptoassets,


• investing


• fundraising and token distribution; 

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We universally lack the discipline to halt our inertia to ask, Should I still be doing what I'm doing?