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Soddy drew distinctions between wealth, virtual wealth, and debt. Wealth is the stock of physically useful objects the economy has produced; it has an origin in low entropy and is subject to entropic decline. Money is virtual wealth; it symbolizes the bearer’s claim on real wealth and resists entropic decay. Debt, held as an asset by those who lend
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David Phelps • People are the New Platforms
Friends with Benefits (FWB) • A Political History of DAOs
Sam explained that he was trying to decide whether to simply pay off the $9 billion Bahamas national debt himself, so the country could fix their roads and build schools and so on. He’d recently met with the new prime minister to discuss this idea and some others. I learned later from one of the prime minister’s aides that after the Bahamian genera
... See moreMichael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
New is overvalued relative to great.
Ray Dalio • Principles: Life and Work
Perhaps the best way to develop your reputation as a value-adding investor for startups is to add value to startups. Brian Cohen is now a well-known angel investor (he was the first angel to discover Pinterest), but his initial steps into the field were as a pro-bono advisor. When he first joined New York Angels, he offered to help any of the group
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