Tom So

@tomso

Deep into web3 social, bit of a generalist In the crypto rabbit hole (as I should). Also super into startups, everything social and community building. I usually read on product management and career development - I add engineering sprinkles to the mix bc why not

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high-skill immigration, since foreign-born geniuses starting American companies—in green energy, yes, but also in software and beyond—is perhaps the greatest free lunch in all of economics.

Derek Thompson • A Simple Plan to Solve All of America’s Problems

1/There is a general misconception that DeSoc is intended to make visible your social graph in a public panopticon way. A "God's eye view" is not the goal. In fact, no two people should have the same partial view.

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DeSOC (decentralised Society) and

How to survive a dark time Emergency tactics for those that need it urgently right now:

Tascha twitter.com

Personal Development and Improving Relationships

The FDA has continually slow-walked the approval of rapid tests for development. The Trump administration was utterly uninterested in any COVID policy outside the vaccines.

Derek Thompson • A Simple Plan to Solve All of America’s Problems

TBM 44/52: Making Optional Product Practices Stick

The Beautiful Mess cutlefish.substack.com

Metascience and

I’m talking about using in-product levers to grow, in place of or in conjunction with external marketing and sales channels. When people can try your product for free, they experience the value of your product before making the decision to pay. This turns more people into happy users, creating more opportunity for them to tell their friends, who in... See more

Reforge • Product Driven Growth: The New Frontier of Growth — Reforge

The stages of CEO & how to evolve as your company does:

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Scaling Back Office and

Front-running is a predatory market behavior that arises due to information asymmetries created by different actors accessing privileged information. Front-running is one of the ways to access MEV, and selling clients' orders is equivalent to the public Ethereum mempool.

Gonzalo Hirsch • Enter the MEV Void: the Rise of Flashbots

One of the biggest shifts in Web 3 is the extraction of your identity/reputation out of the application layer into the user layer.

Derek Thompson • A Simple Plan to Solve All of America’s Problems

Derek Thompson • A Simple Plan to Solve All of America’s Problems

TBM 44/52: Making Optional Product Practices Stick

Reforge • Product Driven Growth: The New Frontier of Growth — Reforge

Gonzalo Hirsch • Enter the MEV Void: the Rise of Flashbots

Substack • Issue #75: Hey...Do You Know Who I Am!?