What is Cheems is laughing off someone’s sincere ideas as self-evidently stupid, or declaring with very little knowledge about a particular field or ambition that something is too difficult/too risky to even think about further. And whenever it puts someone off pursuing what they otherwise might (consciously or not), its consequence is the creation... See more

Sometimes, tokens function like equity in a company, and owning a token is akin to holding a stake in the project’s potential upside. Other times, tokens function like a “token-of-gratitude” and symbolize goodwill among close friends in the purest sense. The wide-ranging role isn’t a bug but a feature representing value in the most abstract sense, ... See more

Was the era of "organizing without organizations" a historical blip?

Third, most emerging fund managers do not have to worry about succession plans or manage an existing brand and track record. They can be focused on deliverying on their chosen strategy,

This looks less like a process  of secularization and more like a paradigmatic shift from an institutional to a personal understanding of  spirituality.  In a qualitative study of a 100 teenagers in five major cities, Richard Flory and Donald Miller found that  millennials are not “the spiritual consumers of their parents’ gener... See more

Truth, the provider of meaning and orientation, is also a narrative. We are very well informed, yet somehow we cannot orient ourselves. The informatization of reality leads to its atomization — separated spheres of what is thought to be true.

VCs are facing the "Big Budget Effect" that is plaguing Hollywood studios right now. In the year 2000 you had just three movies that had made $1B+. Titanic, Jurassic Park, and Star Wars Episode I. Today you have 45+ movies that have made over $1B, and some of them have made $2B+ like Avengers and Avatar.

Areas of opportunity; hiring, creating products for founders like NFX's Signal, and processes such as indexing people instead of companies.

I want this to work, furthermore, whether those people are sharing a random thought every day, a blog post every week, or an art project every two years.And I want it to work, of course, across media, so I can follow writers, musicians, programmers, theorists, troublemakers …