I am fascinated by rivals of industries or titans of their niches being competitive. It seems like suitable rivals who play at the cutting edge of their respective fields push each other to new heights of greatness. Of course, its not all rosy and competition is fierce (which can lead to disaster for either or…

A quick note on why its important to split the economic and political centres. Usually, countries have a natural split between these two centres … for example, the DC-NYC corridor, Beijing and Shanghai, Berlin and Frankfurt. However, I noticed that some countries and more importantly institutions locate both in the same place… for example, Abu…

Over the past year I have spent a good amount of time in Dubai, UAE. Dubai is fascinating given that they built a city out of the sand and have attracted so much capital and attention while doing so. In crypto-communities new cities or network states seems to be a fashionable topic to bring up…