Self-Sovereign Data (SoDa): The New Web3 Data Economy
This is not another post about the metaverse. Well, not exactly… but with the Meta rebrand solidifying the concept in the 2021 zeitgeist, there is a less explored, and I believe critical concept, from the same novel — Neal Stephenson’s “Snowcrash” — that has me thinking. In Stephenson’s “Snowcrash” Hiro Protagonist, the aptly named protagonist of the book, side hustles as a “Stringer for CIC”; essentially a gig economy worker collecting digital intelligence and posting it to a massive data ma...
Self-Sovereign Data (SoDa): The New Web3 Data Economy
This is not another post about the metaverse. Well, not exactly… but with the Meta rebrand solidifying the concept in the 2021 zeitgeist, there is a less explored, and I believe critical concept, from the same novel — Neal Stephenson’s “Snowcrash” — that has me thinking. In Stephenson’s “Snowcrash” Hiro Protagonist, the aptly named protagonist of the book, side hustles as a “Stringer for CIC”; essentially a gig economy worker collecting digital intelligence and posting it to a massive data ma...
Data Buying: What is Data Really Worth?
This was originally published on Medium 6/1/2020 In May 2017, the cover of the Economist pronounced data as “The World’s Most Valuable Resource”. Companies the world over agreed, spending more than $45B with external data companies in 2018 alone. Yet unlike oil or other commodities, there are few ways to value data. Instead, data buyers are at the mercy of opaque claims made by data vendors and find themselves overspending on inferior sources, with little clue of how to calculate an ROI. I co...
Data Buying: What is Data Really Worth?
This was originally published on Medium 6/1/2020 In May 2017, the cover of the Economist pronounced data as “The World’s Most Valuable Resource”. Companies the world over agreed, spending more than $45B with external data companies in 2018 alone. Yet unlike oil or other commodities, there are few ways to value data. Instead, data buyers are at the mercy of opaque claims made by data vendors and find themselves overspending on inferior sources, with little clue of how to calculate an ROI. I co...
