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The Era of Eduployment: Identifying a trade, getting an education, and getting a job (or starting a company) become fully integrated. Rather than enduring an expensive education only to assume the complete risk of your career, this new eduployment model, as I’ve come to call it, gives everyone skin in the game.

The Axie Universe has a self-contained economy. Players can buy and sell digital goods. For example, players can buy and sell Axie (the Pokemon-esque creatures). This economy is built around two cryptocurrencies: AXS and SLP.

And while Brandless made a big deal out of the concept of a “brand tax” — the idea that products from other brands cost more because they have middlemen or other distribution costs — we now know the real story is that direct to consumer e-commerce brands have their own high costs, from engineering talent to online marketing.

The most competent people I know are pretty good at basically anything they put their minds to, because they just design a process and run it. I think this is largely mental and emotional—the hardest part isn’t figuring out the steps, it’s enduring the psychological discomfort of doing them and then adapting.