Mo Shafieeha

So, why is this model better than the legacy business model? Like legacy models, protocols aren't dominated by profit-seeking capital providers. By issuing protocol-specific governance tokens, they may also include users (supply-siders and demand-siders). So the real users get a say when token holders decide whether to charge transaction fees.

Taking an idea from concept to business means moving through a series of gates. In the Silicon Valley model, the gates look something like this:

1. Develop an initial product concept and launch a Minimum Viable Product (MVP).


2. Iterate on MVP to reach product/market fit.


3. Scale up.


4. Cash-out.

Abstraction offers another benefit: by sacrificing detail, the essence of your message becomes plausible, believable, and relatable. Good storytellers give us enough detail to see what they mean, but ensure those details are relatable enough to be relevant to the audience. Images and stories help us connect with bigger concepts. Airbnb's early work... See more

Are we destined for an even less private web? Who is affected by web3's lack of privacy is not addressed? Crypto users often maintain split identities because they do not wish to be exposed to the public eye. Still, they must be willing to try to maintain privacy, identity management, and pseudonymity.

"Edutainment: Technology + Involvement = Memory" Education enhances employee knowledge and skills. While edutainment isn't new, educational technology supports it. There's more. Including edutainment in your learning strategy doesn't mean minimizing complexity. Instead, you can make your corporate training programs more relaxed and exciting. As a... See more

It's impossible to overstate how important getting good sleep is for mental, cognitive, and performance health. If you get direct morning sunlight 30-60 minutes after you wake up, helps you fall asleep and stay asleep at night, while optimizing cortisol and adenosine production. You can increase alertness by waking up in the morning, increasing... See more

In order for investors to get interested, a $1B+ market is needed, but more aggressive entrepreneurs come with $5B-$10B+ markets, knowing that everyone else is $1B+. It is typically calculated by multiplying the number of potential customers by the amount each customer spends. In order to give credibility to the analysis, some might use third-party... See more

This is part 1 of a 2-part essay series on the current state of decentralized governance in crypto, followed by "Governance as a Source of Value."

When you lose a limb, you might feel like you're still holding on to it even after it's been amputated - grief feels like a phantom limb. For us to understand grief, we need to know that there are five stages (non-linear, not everyone moves through all of them):

1. denial


2. anger


3. bargaining


4. depression


5. acceptance.

There's a lot to do with life circumstances,... See more