Mo Shafieeha

How well you visualize something dictates how well you can achieve that thing: whether you'll be able to meet the goal, how you'll feel afterward, and whether you'll be able to handle a more difficult one.

The decentralized crypto protocol community is growing. Unlocking the protocols isn't just for ideological reasons; they'll still work, and anyone can build on them. Like loans, loans, and trading, a decentralized governance system is needed for bitcoin. Crypto startups switching to community governance raises many questions about development,... See more

Read plenty of "what went wrong" eulogies by founders and see what you can learn. But also know that the lens from which they tell you the answer is flawed and narrative biases are present.

UX paradoxes are a big deal because design principles are so obscure. To simplify the complex, we have to make them understandable, practical, and memorable. Of course, we might have to go beyond just a few design principles. No matter what we're designing for, whether it's inclusion or digital sustainability, we can always dig deeper into the more... See more

Multiple Miracles Should Be Avoided Entrepreneurs fail often when they define their end goal and then create miracle-driven logic chains to reach it. For example, we want to replace Yelp. Step 1: Launch a mobile music app. Once we have millions of users, we can add local content, including businesses. As soon as we reach millions of users, we can... See more

Is it just about the money, and does that matter? Web3 is absolutely a gold rush. People are very desperate for money (quite quickly) doing what they enjoy. Even if many entrants into crypto "do not fundamentally care about distributed trust models," an attractive alternative would be one where the user base grows to care.