Library: a stateless code pattern/schema. The success of a library can be measured by the number of times it is copy/pasted, replicated, re-deployed, and custom tuned. This is the tested and true thing that open source does well. Examples: Linux, ERC721. But as the history of open source…Read More

I’m writing this post quickly for a more permanent record of developing thoughts. This style and many of the ideas were spurred by a few blog posts Wilson Cusack wrote last year, which I recently read and reference below. Highly recommend reading them too!  In Wilson’s Fees for…Read More

I was struck by Matt Huang's "Web3 has done much damage" tweet, which disparages the term Web3 in favor of “crypto.” Crypto is a 100x better term than web3, always has beenWeb3 has caused much damage and misplaced expectations— Matt Huang (@matthuang) January 9, 2023 "Crypto" has its roots…Read More

In 2006, Paul Graham wrote a great post wherein he concluded that Web 2.0 was a credible term because it meant “using the web the way it's meant to be used.” I think this is a good lens to interpret the term Web3, and why it is still a…Read More

Three popular narratives emanating from the crypto community as to how DeFi can touch billions of end users.…Read More

Many entrepreneurs and investors think that crypto projects can’t capture value because they are based on open source code. The thinking goes that if you develop open source code, someone will come along and copy it, luring away your users and any potential for revenue. That doesn’t seem…Read More

Originally published as a Twitter thread, here is my high level reading/summary of @RobertJShiller’s book: "Narrative Economics"…Read More

Crypto founders have a unique challenge in front of them. In addition to building a product that people want, they also need to consider how that product can successfully run in a decentralized manner — that is, as a protocol owned and operated by a community of users.This is a…Read More

I spent the first half of the decade doing overlapping music things:2010 - concert promoter2012-  live streaming, SaaS tool2013 - artist managerThe second half doing tech things —specifically, "crypto" (née "blockchain") things2015 - entrepreneur2017 - investing / product / r&d2018 - VCThe through-line is interestingness, at least to me.…Read More