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Understanding business as sports is important to your wallet. If current trends persist, and retail investors (you, me, and everyone else on Robinhood and Public) continue to move the markets, then stock prices will be impacted more by fandom than fundamentals than they ever have before. You will need to understand both the strategy behind decision... See more

What was required of other human beings so that I might be able to use this technology?

Today, participants of a centralized social or media network have no incentive to care about the quality of the network itself. The web2 economic model is a zero-sum game, and individuals are incentivized only to draw attention to themselves. Because there is no cost to create, every network inevitably becomes inundated with spam and noise at scale... See more

The narrative and hype cycle around shared micromobility has caused many to take their eye off the ball on the opportunity at hand. Huge scooter-centric funding rounds, blowups, and controversies distract from the fact that micromobility more generally is a classically disruptive technology platform and has the potential to transform cities in both... See more

To build a values-aligned company, what a company says externally has to be consistent with the experience and values for employees internally. People are increasingly allergic to marketing and choose products and services with honest, transparent, and consistent values.

The solution is to invent a new one that is a variant on the existing one

Result: Aspiring entrepreneurs think these are the only two paths to startup success.

Go back even further, and there are dozens of examples of Bezos codifying key ideas for maximum recall. For example, every year I was at Amazon had a theme (reminiscent of how David Foster Wallace imagined in  Infinite Jest  that in the future corporate sponsors could  buy the rights to name years ). These themes were conc

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