Mo Shafieeha

Asset curation The most natural place for asset curation is NFT collection DAOs, such as PleasrDAO. DeFi DAOs can also face this problem. DeFi DAOs use their governance tokens as art and culture curators to vote on adding or removing assets. Anyone can create a trading pool in Uniswap, but those with leverage cannot. Governance determines which... See more

Alcohol can disrupt the brain's function if you drink a lot, even at low or moderate levels, like 1-2 drinks a day or 7-14 drinks a week. Drinkers' prefrontal cortex and top-down inhibition will be diminished, so they'll act impulsively. Long-term drinkers (even those who drink 1-2 nights a week, long term) tend to rewire circuitry outside of... See more

David Sirlin explains: In gaming, a scrub is someone who isn't playing to win. A scrub would disagree with this statement, saying they are only trying hard within a construct of fictitious rules that prevent them from ever competing. The scrub mentality is to be shackled by self-imposed handicaps that prevent one from becoming good at a game.

Cleo is tackling a big and almost universal problem. They are building a software-mediated network that dramatically democratizes access to the "modern village," helping women and men meet modern parental and career demands. There are hundreds of billions of dollars in lost productivity, employee attrition and medical costs at stake. Cleo has... See more

Professor K. Anders Ericsson explains in his 2016 deliberate practice book that human expertise results from the development of effective mental representations of whatever field you wish to specialize in. Although this view of expertise as tacit knowledge is relatively well-known, it seems uncontroversial. The art of practice, however, may simply... See more

To build a successful company, you ultimately need revenue. Many startups, tech or otherwise, fail. A $500 ticket and a $5 fee from the airlines (1% gross margin) is not the same as selling $500 of software. People have been saying things I thought I'd never have to, like "getting to a positive gross margin in several territories is a very low bar... See more

Implementing ML requires high coordination, highly skilled engineering, and product development. Baseten's co-founders were data scientists who scrappily became full-stack engineers so they could use machine learning to mitigate fraud and abuse and moderate user-generated content. At Clover Health, Amir led teams that developed machine learning... See more