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Whether you are examining past societies or living and acting within one today, it’s important to distinguish between  live  and  dead  players. A live player   is a person or well-coordinated group of people that is able to do things they have not done before. A dead player   is a person or group of people that is wor

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Web3 is cooperative, and it’s also competitive. It’s fueled by positive-sum competition

Of course, smartphones, by themselves, don’t force you to stop hanging out in person. But there are several reasons they reduce it. First, they’re a distraction — the rise of smartphones was also the rise of “ phubbing ”, i.e. when people go on their phones instead of paying attention to the people around them. Second, phones provide a behavioral

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Product development is a challenging exercise in constraint optimization and managing tradeoffs. There’s a common misconception that requirements should be made by product managers or designers in isolation– that good design is the result of someone walking alone into a room, thinking really hard, and walking out with a product requirements documen... See more

Mentors and advisors are overrated, while peer groups are underrated

The tide has shifted and people don’t trust authority like they used to. The same institutions that once commanded so much American praise have lost their edge and versatility. They look less like a Swiss army knife and more like your grandma’s dull, rusty, 19th-century butter knife. They’re slow and stodgy, bloated and inefficient.