One year since the best "job pitch" I've ever received. Lesson: Shoot your shot.

How to start a new city - Build a community in the cloud - Organize economy around remote work - Enforce laws with smart contracts - Practice in-person norms of civility - Simulate architecture in VR - Eventually, crowdfund territory - And materialize city into the real world

Most of the "tokenized securities" being hyped are "digital stock certificates", not permission-less decentralized businesses with on-chain cash flows & dividends. The former is a cash grab by under-writers, the latter is the potential 10x disruption (a precursor to full DAOs).

Fun graphic on $META from the Rowan Street annual letter (a hedge fund that printed a 102.6% net return in 2023): Shows how non-linear the path to good returns can be and how conviction pays off. https://rowanstreet.com/post/rowan-street-2023-year-end-letter... See more

An ongoing shame in American newsrooms is that so much great journalism is buried in absolutely sadistic web design.

Prediction: Incentive designer will be a new title in web3. I think of it as a product designer that can draw on principles from economics/tokenomics, psychology, and engineering. Incentives govern everything!

Nerding hard on digital gardens, personal wikis, and experimental knowledge systems with @_jonesian today. We have an epic collection going, check these out... 1. @tomcritchlow's Wikifolders: https://tomcritchlow.com/wiki/

extractGPT: a browser extension for scraping data from structured & unstructured pages. Just tell it what table columns you want, and it does the rest! Watch it pull a list of customers from this page:

Imagining language that is more accessible and understandable 🧵🪡: TL;DR wallet -> portals credit - me! @rae_kwak_ @jocelyntypes @web3baddies