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Pioneering Spirit

Maybe in my backyard: MIMBY

A few months ago a single sheet of paper arrived in my mailbox. One page, dense with legalese, announcing a proposed five-story, 80-unit apartment building around the corner from my house. I almost recycled it. I didn't, and I've been mulling the project ever since. Here's the complicating fact: I'm supposed to be on the other side of this fight. I supported Abundant Housing LA. I led the research function at California Forward and worked on policy to increase statewide housing supply. I beli...

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This Week in All Things AI

This Week in All Things AI - Week 11-2026

Interesting news this week included Codewall's whitehat hack and responsible disclosure of vulnerabilities in McKinsey's AI platform. Openclaw's rise in China driven by firms offering hosted solution as well as China’s cybersecurity authorities are restricting OpenClaw usage in banks, SOEs, and government Lots of coding agents news with Agent 4 from Replit, OB-1 emerging as a “self-improving” coding agent with top Terminal Bench scores as well as comments from Elon Musk that xAI acknowledges ...

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FLAVOR by moyed

Things I read Last Week #10

So much interesting things going on right now!

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The Mirror and the Loom

Constraints are the Mother of Perspective

Your brain is simpler than the universe it aims to comprehend. That's not a limitation — it's the origin of everything we call perspective. From reference frames to flow states, the constraints on what we can model determine the world we can see. This post explores how bounded observers turn computational limits into the engine of discovery, expertise, and value creation.

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Nye's Digital Lab

Own the Data You Create

This week I'm looking at Ben Affleck, a $600 million AI deal, and what it means for every creative who's been generating data for free.

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Brandon Donnelly

The Dubai shock

It is worth reiterating that one of the main reasons the majority of people live in cities is because they would like to make money and improve their economic status. There are, of course, other reasons too, but making money is an enduring attractor. In Alain Bertaud's book, Order Without Design: How Markets Shape Cities, he famously argued that cities are, first and foremost, labour markets. Because of this, the success of cities depends on their ability to harness talent and turn it into ec...

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Blockchain at NTU

Deep Dive #2: From Tokens to Takeovers: How Crypto Companies Raise Capital and Execute M&A Differently

How do crypto firms exit? From Coinbase’s IPO to token swaps and the Deribit merger, explore the new Web3 M&A and fundraising playbook.

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The Mirror and the Loom

A New Observer Paradox

The world we experience is not the world itself. It's a compressed representation, built by bounded observers who must make sense of far more than they can process. This is the first in a series exploring how patterns, observers, and computational limits shape everything from perception to consciousness to AI.

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Coop Recs Weekly

Our first shows in Japan are underway. This week we announced the second show in our new Tokyo event series - this time with one of the most prolific artists in UKG named MPH. We’ve been fortunate to drop over 20 tracks with MPH onchain including a number of exclusives only found on Coop Recs. He’s since gone on to play shows with Fred Again…, Disclosure and a ton of other industry leading acts ahead of what’s shaping up to be his biggest year yet. We sold out the show in the first day, and w...

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Ethereum Foundation Mandate

A manifesto to guide the foundation across two core goals: protecting self-sovereign computation and enabling coordination at scale.

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Pioneering Spirit

The Word “Work” Weasels Into Way Too Many Concepts

I have a confession. It’s a bit awkward to make in a country founded on the Protestant Work Ethic, but here it is: I no longer understand the word “work.” This became clear to me during the pandemic, on one of countless Tuesday mornings that blurred into each other, walking my dogs through the neighborhood while half-listening to a colleague explain an arcane concept in the state budget. The call was useful. My thinking was sharp. My dogs were happy. By any honest accounting, I was doing my j...

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Union Square Ventures

History Rhymes?

It is said that while history doesn’t repeat, it does rhyme. This is a pattern we've observed before in the Internet era. When a novel technology arrives, early infrastructure is controlled (or attempted to be controlled) by a small number of players who prefer to create and extract value inside their walls (so called “walled gardens”). The user's experiences here are typically good enough (or novel enough) that most users don’t ask what they're missing. And then something happens: bottom-up,...

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BuildBetter by BFG

Stop Onboarding Users. Onboard $100 Billion Instead - podcast episode you should see

Stop Onboarding Users. Onboard $100 Billion Instead - podcast episode you should see. Kevin's Journey From Accounting Student to Gold-Backed Stablecoin Founder

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Most valuable pollinator

We're looking at the beauty of spring in issue #287 of your weekly poetry shot

📵 You Being Distracted Has Nothing to Do With Distractions

Soooo, most people think that external triggers like social media, Netflix, or other people are what’s ruining your focus. Turns out it’s not true.

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Noticing the short line

Jim Simons made $28 billion running Renaissance Technologies, the greatest quantitative fund ever built. In the early days they also did some discretionary trading. There's one interview I love from the period. In it Simons recalls how him and his partner had a large position in gold, riding a run from $200 to $800. One day he calls his stockbroker. During small talk the broker complains that his wife, a jeweler, had cleaned out all his old gold tie clasps and cufflinks that morning and gone ...

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Brandon Donnelly

Singapore's Build-to-Order housing model

It is well known that the majority of Singaporeans live in public housing (that is, housing provided by the Housing and Development Board, or HDB). However, what you may not know is that the majority of residents obtain their housing through a model that shares some high-level similarities with the way we deliver new condominiums in Toronto. In 2001, the HDB introduced a program known as Build-to-Order (BTO). The way it works is fairly straightforward: the HDB announces a new project, prospec...

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Trust Me Bro Show

Vibe Coding Just Grew Up

One year ago, "vibe coding" meant asking AI to build you a landing page. This week it means something completely different. Let's find out why.

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Trader Loses $50m In AAVE Swap

A trader using the swap interface on the Aave front-end suffered a $50 million loss after accepting a swap with 99% slippage.

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Millions of agents. No map

The next wave of onchain users won't have names. They won't feel conviction, doubt, or FOMO. They won't read a thread and pause to think, check telegram groups, or scroll the trenches. They'll have a wallet, an objective, and a system that never stops executing. x402 is live. Agentic wallets are live. ERC-8004 gives agents onchain identity. The infrastructure is settled. The question is this: in a world where millions of agents act simultaneously, how does any one of them know what's actually...

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Pioneering Spirit

Maybe in my backyard: MIMBY

A few months ago a single sheet of paper arrived in my mailbox. One page, dense with legalese, announcing a proposed five-story, 80-unit apartment building around the corner from my house. I almost recycled it. I didn't, and I've been mulling the project ever since. Here's the complicating fact: I'm supposed to be on the other side of this fight. I supported Abundant Housing LA. I led the research function at California Forward and worked on policy to increase statewide housing supply. I beli...

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This Week in All Things AI

This Week in All Things AI - Week 11-2026

Interesting news this week included Codewall's whitehat hack and responsible disclosure of vulnerabilities in McKinsey's AI platform. Openclaw's rise in China driven by firms offering hosted solution as well as China’s cybersecurity authorities are restricting OpenClaw usage in banks, SOEs, and government Lots of coding agents news with Agent 4 from Replit, OB-1 emerging as a “self-improving” coding agent with top Terminal Bench scores as well as comments from Elon Musk that xAI acknowledges ...

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FLAVOR by moyed

Things I read Last Week #10

So much interesting things going on right now!

Post cover image

The Mirror and the Loom

Constraints are the Mother of Perspective

Your brain is simpler than the universe it aims to comprehend. That's not a limitation — it's the origin of everything we call perspective. From reference frames to flow states, the constraints on what we can model determine the world we can see. This post explores how bounded observers turn computational limits into the engine of discovery, expertise, and value creation.

Post cover image

Nye's Digital Lab

Own the Data You Create

This week I'm looking at Ben Affleck, a $600 million AI deal, and what it means for every creative who's been generating data for free.

Post cover image

Brandon Donnelly

The Dubai shock

It is worth reiterating that one of the main reasons the majority of people live in cities is because they would like to make money and improve their economic status. There are, of course, other reasons too, but making money is an enduring attractor. In Alain Bertaud's book, Order Without Design: How Markets Shape Cities, he famously argued that cities are, first and foremost, labour markets. Because of this, the success of cities depends on their ability to harness talent and turn it into ec...

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Blockchain at NTU

Deep Dive #2: From Tokens to Takeovers: How Crypto Companies Raise Capital and Execute M&A Differently

How do crypto firms exit? From Coinbase’s IPO to token swaps and the Deribit merger, explore the new Web3 M&A and fundraising playbook.

Post cover image

The Mirror and the Loom

A New Observer Paradox

The world we experience is not the world itself. It's a compressed representation, built by bounded observers who must make sense of far more than they can process. This is the first in a series exploring how patterns, observers, and computational limits shape everything from perception to consciousness to AI.

Post cover image

Coop Recs Weekly

Our first shows in Japan are underway. This week we announced the second show in our new Tokyo event series - this time with one of the most prolific artists in UKG named MPH. We’ve been fortunate to drop over 20 tracks with MPH onchain including a number of exclusives only found on Coop Recs. He’s since gone on to play shows with Fred Again…, Disclosure and a ton of other industry leading acts ahead of what’s shaping up to be his biggest year yet. We sold out the show in the first day, and w...

Post cover image

Ethereum Foundation Mandate

A manifesto to guide the foundation across two core goals: protecting self-sovereign computation and enabling coordination at scale.

Post cover image

Pioneering Spirit

The Word “Work” Weasels Into Way Too Many Concepts

I have a confession. It’s a bit awkward to make in a country founded on the Protestant Work Ethic, but here it is: I no longer understand the word “work.” This became clear to me during the pandemic, on one of countless Tuesday mornings that blurred into each other, walking my dogs through the neighborhood while half-listening to a colleague explain an arcane concept in the state budget. The call was useful. My thinking was sharp. My dogs were happy. By any honest accounting, I was doing my j...

Post cover image

Union Square Ventures

History Rhymes?

It is said that while history doesn’t repeat, it does rhyme. This is a pattern we've observed before in the Internet era. When a novel technology arrives, early infrastructure is controlled (or attempted to be controlled) by a small number of players who prefer to create and extract value inside their walls (so called “walled gardens”). The user's experiences here are typically good enough (or novel enough) that most users don’t ask what they're missing. And then something happens: bottom-up,...

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BuildBetter by BFG

Stop Onboarding Users. Onboard $100 Billion Instead - podcast episode you should see

Stop Onboarding Users. Onboard $100 Billion Instead - podcast episode you should see. Kevin's Journey From Accounting Student to Gold-Backed Stablecoin Founder

Post cover image

Most valuable pollinator

We're looking at the beauty of spring in issue #287 of your weekly poetry shot

📵 You Being Distracted Has Nothing to Do With Distractions

Soooo, most people think that external triggers like social media, Netflix, or other people are what’s ruining your focus. Turns out it’s not true.

Post cover image

Noticing the short line

Jim Simons made $28 billion running Renaissance Technologies, the greatest quantitative fund ever built. In the early days they also did some discretionary trading. There's one interview I love from the period. In it Simons recalls how him and his partner had a large position in gold, riding a run from $200 to $800. One day he calls his stockbroker. During small talk the broker complains that his wife, a jeweler, had cleaned out all his old gold tie clasps and cufflinks that morning and gone ...

Post cover image

Brandon Donnelly

Singapore's Build-to-Order housing model

It is well known that the majority of Singaporeans live in public housing (that is, housing provided by the Housing and Development Board, or HDB). However, what you may not know is that the majority of residents obtain their housing through a model that shares some high-level similarities with the way we deliver new condominiums in Toronto. In 2001, the HDB introduced a program known as Build-to-Order (BTO). The way it works is fairly straightforward: the HDB announces a new project, prospec...

Post cover image

Trust Me Bro Show

Vibe Coding Just Grew Up

One year ago, "vibe coding" meant asking AI to build you a landing page. This week it means something completely different. Let's find out why.

Post cover image

Trader Loses $50m In AAVE Swap

A trader using the swap interface on the Aave front-end suffered a $50 million loss after accepting a swap with 99% slippage.

Post cover image

Millions of agents. No map

The next wave of onchain users won't have names. They won't feel conviction, doubt, or FOMO. They won't read a thread and pause to think, check telegram groups, or scroll the trenches. They'll have a wallet, an objective, and a system that never stops executing. x402 is live. Agentic wallets are live. ERC-8004 gives agents onchain identity. The infrastructure is settled. The question is this: in a world where millions of agents act simultaneously, how does any one of them know what's actually...