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“Oxygenate your life with books, possibility, chance, hope, dash, verve.”
1/ On America and crypto There is no more natural home for crypto than the United States of America. There is no more natural strategic weapon for the United States of America than crypto. The USA has never gone wrong betting on freedom and things are no different this time.
How do we go in the space of a few years, a few months rather, from 'the future is urban' to 'the death of the city'? A thread on what I think we're getting right and wrong about the current moment
Here's the pitch deck we used to raise a $1m pre-seed for @BuildWithSpore I looked for other *recent* examples before starting, and didn't find many. I found zero with explanation around each slide. So hopefully this is helpful! Thread with my comments about each slide ⬇️- I think startups focus too much on pitching features of their product where they could be selling their point of view on the market. Your point of view describes why you prioritized features the way you did and why your product is the best solution for a certain type of buyer 1/
What I really think good writing does: It enlivens that part of us that actually believes we are in this world, right now, and that being here somehow matters.
-George Saunders
this insight from morgan housel on tim ferriss: "People think they're capturing attention but what they're actually fostering is envy."
"I quote others only “in order to better express myself.”
-Montaigne
- The problem with Google Search isn't ads. It's a problem of automation vs curation. What we need is a mimetic search engine¹ (not instead of Google but in addition to it). — ¹ https://julian.digital/2020/05/28/what-shopify-and-amazon-can-learn-from-mimetic-theory/... See more