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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Challenges of working with hardware, specially in healthcare

Spotify • Leading Async Engineering Teams & Building Hardware with Andrew Conner from Levels

Because your private key is your account, losing your key means losing your account.

Julien Niset • Part I: WTF is Account Abstraction

Web3 identity solutions center around user-centric ownership models. They also prioritize portability, with solutions promising a foundational identity layer that enables inherent information transferability, rather than retroactively fitted portability solutions as in web2.

Mirror • Mapping the web3 Identity Landscape

From Product Manager to Product Leader

Substack blog.mindthebeet.com

Hiring Advice and

If you put in the hard work necessary to become a Great PM, you will create tremendous career optionality and time optionality for yourself. And you will leave a lasting imprint on the companies and industries you work in. All on your own terms.

Linkedin • Good Product Managers, Great Product Managers

Is ownership shifting from an ability to demonstrate control or possession to the ability to make collective meaning?

Kernel • Signature Economies

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

Signature Economies

Kernel sign.kernel.community

Ownership Economy and Ethereum

The important thing from a logging-into-software perspective is not who you are, but what you are authorized to do. So, Keys, not IDs.