"The airline pilot who announces that he is presently anticipating experiencing considerable precipitation wouldn’t think of saying it may rain. The sentence is too simple— there must be something wrong with it. But the secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components."
While many crypto startups have successfully made their users into owners by following the Progressive Decentralization playbook, a number of founding teams feel compelled to step back from their projects at the time of token launch to reduce the risk that their tokens will be deemed securities. An alternative path may allow founders to stay involv... See more
love this from Robert Carto (h/t to Ben Springwater for sharing w/me)
The DoorDash of today isn’t the end state DoorDash. DoorDash is aggregating consumers, Dashers and merchants on its platform and adding great value to each party. This paves the path for the company to one day dominate last-mile logistics and upsell their customers with higher-margin products and services. Each new vertical DoorDash makes available... See more
The MLS helped agents create value by making home data scarce and difficult to access; Zillow was making it open and free. As Zillow grew in popularity, however, MLS realized they couldn’t live without Zillow.
“ There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by. A life of good days lived in the senses is not enough. The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less; time is ample and its passage sweet. Who would call a day spent reading a good day? But a life sp... See more