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"We are optimists and believe there is hope on the other side of despair.... We need government, business and entrepreneurial intervention at scale (deployed logically and effectively) to get to the other side."

She is correct to be skeptical. There are three major barriers: technical execution, storytelling and onboarding, and regulatory limits. Smart contract developers are in short supply, a potential hindrance to technical execution. And then there is messaging. Will the average coffee consumer care about governance, involvement in brand guidance, or t... See more

Google goes sideways to up. Facebook sideways to down, as every lie they’ve told is a debt to the truth, and that debt is coming due. Libra is dead, and while they should be the primary platform at the epicenter of a vast state-sponsored virus tracing effort, they are not. It’s no accident the social media firm was excluded from Apple and Alphabet’... See more

It’s essential to “parent on a conscious level” How so? – By following the ‘TRICK’ acronym: Trust: Are you trusting your child? For instance, trust them to make a healthy breakfast themselvesRespect: Are you respecting your child’s ideas?Independence: Are you giving your child independence?Collaboration: Are you collaborating with your child and ac... See more

What this trend in regulation does, however, is that it gives a big nudge in favor of those applications that are willing to take the centralization-minimizing, user-sovereignty-maximizing "can't be evil" route.