Framing the Future of the Internet
The god of the internet has a sense of humor, or at least a sense of timing. In the same week that Apple proved that regulators can’t stop its App Store monopoly with its frustrating response to the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), Farcaster released Frames.@v on WarpcastThe connection between Apple’s App Store monopoly and Farcaster’s Frames might not be immediately obvious – it might turn out not to exist at all – but Frames is the most compelling example of why blockchain networks might ult...
Framing the Future of the Internet
The god of the internet has a sense of humor, or at least a sense of timing. In the same week that Apple proved that regulators can’t stop its App Store monopoly with its frustrating response to the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), Farcaster released Frames.@v on WarpcastThe connection between Apple’s App Store monopoly and Farcaster’s Frames might not be immediately obvious – it might turn out not to exist at all – but Frames is the most compelling example of why blockchain networks might ult...
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Idea Olympics
The Idea Olympics started as just that… an idea. An organic, honest-to-Sam, this, then how bout this, but what about that, oh yeah this, pinball of an idea in the very human brain of a very human woman. Here’s how it happened. Maya was entranced by the cap of a very old Olympics – 1996, Atlanta, marked by the bomb and the unforgettable image of Kerri Strug sticking the landing – and she got to thinking. “What was the point of the Olympics?” Ping. To her, it seemed the Olympics were a celebrat...
Idea Olympics
The Idea Olympics started as just that… an idea. An organic, honest-to-Sam, this, then how bout this, but what about that, oh yeah this, pinball of an idea in the very human brain of a very human woman. Here’s how it happened. Maya was entranced by the cap of a very old Olympics – 1996, Atlanta, marked by the bomb and the unforgettable image of Kerri Strug sticking the landing – and she got to thinking. “What was the point of the Olympics?” Ping. To her, it seemed the Olympics were a celebrat...
Startup Prophecies
I have a few core beliefs that animate Not Boring: Startups are key to solving really big challenges. More people should be able to invest in, and support, startups. We need more optimistic stories about technology. I also have a few less-core-but-relevant-here beliefs, which I’ve written about: Business is the New Sports.Bottoms-up narratives are a powerful way to build worlds. (Story Time)In Story Time, I wrote that “In a world of abundance, attention is the scarcest resource, and people’s ...
Startup Prophecies
I have a few core beliefs that animate Not Boring: Startups are key to solving really big challenges. More people should be able to invest in, and support, startups. We need more optimistic stories about technology. I also have a few less-core-but-relevant-here beliefs, which I’ve written about: Business is the New Sports.Bottoms-up narratives are a powerful way to build worlds. (Story Time)In Story Time, I wrote that “In a world of abundance, attention is the scarcest resource, and people’s ...
Web3 Use Cases: Today
Crashes aren’t only painful because of price declines, although it’s never fun to see your account balances slashed relentlessly, day after day. Crashes are also painful because belief drains from the market as quickly as cash does. And those who never believed in the first place rush in to fill the void with a chorus of schadenfreude-laced I told you so’s. If you felt smart a couple of months ago, you feel less smart now. If you were proud to tell people about what you’re building a couple o...
Web3 Use Cases: Today
Crashes aren’t only painful because of price declines, although it’s never fun to see your account balances slashed relentlessly, day after day. Crashes are also painful because belief drains from the market as quickly as cash does. And those who never believed in the first place rush in to fill the void with a chorus of schadenfreude-laced I told you so’s. If you felt smart a couple of months ago, you feel less smart now. If you were proud to tell people about what you’re building a couple o...
Optimism
Originally published on Not BoringNot Boring’s mission is to make the world more optimistic. I’ve never written that down before, or even thought it coherently until very recently, but it’s been an undercurrent throughout many of the essays I’ve written: Schumpeter’s Gale, Compounding Crazy, Existential Optimism, The Best is Yet to Come, The Best is Still Yet to Come, The Invisible Swarm, The Laboratory for Complex Problems, Ownership and the American Dream, Newton’s Alchemy, and more. It com...
Optimism
Originally published on Not BoringNot Boring’s mission is to make the world more optimistic. I’ve never written that down before, or even thought it coherently until very recently, but it’s been an undercurrent throughout many of the essays I’ve written: Schumpeter’s Gale, Compounding Crazy, Existential Optimism, The Best is Yet to Come, The Best is Still Yet to Come, The Invisible Swarm, The Laboratory for Complex Problems, Ownership and the American Dream, Newton’s Alchemy, and more. It com...
