Tengji Zhang

Gives a brilliant and very cynical description of the Ponzi nature of yield farming in DeFi. Shed some light on how it is no so different from startups nowadays that keeps raising more money despite net negative return, as long as they have a grand narrative with a big promised profit at the end.

Aggregators: Aggregating an individual's on-chain activities spread across multiple wallets and chains.

“If you look at a typical company, the founders and investors own 80-90%,” he goes on. “All of the employees own the other 10-20%. It doesn't make sense. It's not who is producing most of the value. We wanted to flip that model on its head. With the DAO, the community controls 80% of the tokens; the founders and strategic partners control 20%.”

Profiles: Showcasing the objective data along with the subjective to build a holistic picture of who you are. LinkedIn for Web3.

Serendipity: Keep books around and when some new information suggests an old book is more important than you thought, you can go back to it.

Annotate in the margin

Build an index in the end for interesting ideas

Generally don't go back to a book I have read

Share snippets and insights of really good books with friends, which often results in good rec

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On-chain identity matter because current professional identities are uninformative and rely on trust instead of verification.