Timour Kosters
@timourkosters
Investor & builder working in blockchain and ml. Tweeting: @timourxyz
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Progressive decentralization is not enough - continuous decentralization is important. Because even in true DAOs, there will always be forces that tend towards centralization
Rehash: A Web Podcast • S3 E6 | DAO Decentralization Thesis & Artificial Intelligence w/nintynick
The major consumer applications of AI will lean heavily into sophisticated recommendations that anticipate your wants and desires before you even know them—in the same way that the TikTok For You Page has shown people that they’re gay before they themselves have even arrived at that realization.
Rex Woodbury • The TikTokization of Everything
Common mistakes when using CAC and/or LTV: using revenue as a proxy for LTV, overestimating LTV when you don't have clear data, failing to take into account the time value of money, not segmenting users by paid vs. organic when doing the math.
Digital Native • Revisiting Lifetime Value and Customer Acquisition
Over the years, plenty of responsible experimenters – think of the more pragmatic elements among the back-to-the-landers, kibbutzim, Tolstoyan farmers and so on – have managed to demonstrate that new societies can form successfully at modest scales. The best among them also managed to establish a productive and beneficial relationship with the... See more
Matt Prewitt • Secret Societies, Network States, Burning Man, Zuzalu, and More: Thoughts on New Political Communities
But over the past few years, we’ve seen a lot of clamoring for what comes next. Virtual reality? Augmented reality? Autonomous vehicles? Web3?
Rex Woodbury • The TikTokization of Everything
Are DAOs bad at building products? - Product teams need continuity and shared context - We need more tools that can coordinate things like product work.
Rehash: A Web Podcast • S3 E6 | DAO Decentralization Thesis & Artificial Intelligence w/nintynick
Nonduality has become a popular teaching in the contemporary spiritual field. Although there are varying, conflicting perspectives and practices now offered as nonduality, these teachings also have important elements in common. They all view human beings as intrinsically endowed with the means to understand or even to realize the primary nature of
... See morePh.D Judith Blackstone • The Fullness of the Ground: A Guide to Embodied Awakening
Buddhism and Meditation
There are many sources of inspiration. New anthropological and archaeological research in books like The Dawn of Everything shows that the history of our species is full of diverse political and social structures and that humans 10,000 years ago were likely more engaged in the politics that ruled their lives compared to today’s average person. They... See more
Crypto’s use-cases, experiments, and narrative shifts
Many founders might be tempted to cast a wider net and get more users onto the product — but Ofstad again cautions against moving too quickly here. With just pockets of those click-into-place customer moments, the Airtable team knew it would be an unusually slow path to launch.