In summary, when you notice yourself grinding there's probably a bug in one of three places. Either your sense of where you are is off, you’re not clear on where you want to go, or you have conflicting goals that need untangling. Rather than pressing down on the figurative accelerator and powering your way through, you might like to consider taking... See more
Let us be different in our homes. Let us realize that, along with food, shelter, and clothing, we have another obligation to our children, and that is to affirm their “rightness.” The whole world will tell them what’s wrong with them—loud and often. Our job is to let our children know what’s right about them
The other appealing thing about DAOs — and what makes them superior to the web2 model I discussed above — is they remove the misalignment between the company and the network by eliminating the company altogether and shifting the economic and governance rights to the network... We like to say instead of “don’t be evil” it’s “can’t be evil.” Instead... See more
I have thought a lot about lending to creators through Substack-like platforms. Why do creators need financing? From a commercial perspective, financing could help creators fund the time required to build a subscription base large enough to replace their income (think pre-seed capital).
The real promise of DAO governance might be forking: using governance to get people to disagree and through the process, discover subcommunities where they're aligned and create their own version of a project. Forking, in that sense, is the ultimate form of decentralization. And it enables governance to become the basis of social graphs where... See more
The hardest thing to do is to create, and then keep creating. The people who make the greatest impact are the people who can keep creating, one thing after another, growing in impact each time. If you look at the world’s great makers - Elon Musk, Beyoncé, whoever you like - they don’t stand apart because of their raw talent. They stand apart... See more