Gaby Goldberg

Aug 15

Curators Are the New Creators

The Business Model of Good TasteWe’re experiencing a content overload. There are an average of 550 new social media users each minute, and over 40,000 search queries on Google every second. The Facebook like button has been pressed 13 trillion times, and each new day welcomes another 682 million tweets. It seems that every time we blink there’s a new podcast published, or blog post to read, or book recommendation to order on Amazon. To make a long story short, it’s becoming increasingly diffi...

Gaby Goldberg

May 24

Stop Calling it a Wallet

What’s in a name? That which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet” — Juliet, about Romeo (Shakespeare)According to the hypothesis of linguistic relativity, the way people think of the world is influenced directly by the language people use to talk about it. Language shapes our thoughts; it changes the way we think.ArrivalMy favorite example of linguistic relativity is in the movie Arrival, where (spoiler alert!) linguistics professor Louise Banks is tasked with working with...

Gaby Goldberg

Feb 8

Towards Crypto Literacy

This post was originally published on Substack. Subscribe for updates.“While tools like Nansen and TokenTerminal increasingly make it easier to verify and assess “real” economic activity on the networks we deploy money into, data literacy has not risen in proportion. And it takes a while before the market picks up on the skills to do that.” —Joel JohnOver the last couple years, we saw a huge focus in crypto towards “onboarding” — bringing non-crypto natives into the space with their first wal...