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What is value? What is productive? A brief post on capitalism
From my perspective, one of the most critical questions we need to ask ourselves, in our hyper-technologist and financialized world, is ‘What is value?’. And not just ask it… but agree on a general structure/answer too. This comes from the general zeitgeist of being pessimistic about our current (shareholder) capitalist model which has the assumption…
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The future can take a long time & the myth of first mover advantage
It has taken me longer than I would have liked to realize that “the future can take a long time”. This graph is taken from Ben Evan’s 2023 presentation on tech trends. Sergey Nazarov, the co-founder of Chainlink Labs, recently said something that rhymes with this on the ChainLink God podcast. Because technology, culture, and…
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Union Square Ventures
This post is in pure honor to Union Square Ventures, a venture capital partnership based out of New York City. I have been reading Fred Wilson’s blog for at least the past six years which you can find here. Fred has been an inspiration and a teacher to me on several levels. If you are…