BLOG OF JAKE

I am excited to announce a new podcast in addition to my existing podcast (Pod of Jake), which I plan to continue unaffected. The new one is called Purple People. For this podcast, I will be having conversations with some of the most interesting people on Farcaster. The only criteria is that the guest is on Farcaster. So I expect the guests and our conversations to be as wide-ranging as the people on Farcaster and their interests. Of course, there are certain areas of interest such as crypto ...

I don’t know what it’s like to be a great founder. But it seems to me that there is some significant sacrifice required during the achiev...

I think there's something to be said for when it's hard to explain "what" you do. The most common paths and careers are the easiest to explain. "I'm ...

NFTs are digital collectibles.

About a year ago, I launched Life Advice. Since then, I have had dozens of calls with mostly young and ambitious people looking for life advice. They...

I had a cup of coffee this morning. That’s an ordinary way start to the day for most Americans. But it was an extraordinary way to start the day for ...

I was looking through my notes and underlines from Rick Rubin’s book, The Creative Act, which I read about a year ago. I initially picked it up to re...

What if crypto is to value as the internet was to information? It seems like crypto is changing the nature of value itself. Just as the internet enab...

“Create what you want and let people get it where they go.”That’s something I’ve been telling myself lately. So what exactly does that mean?Well, the...

Gorillas are roughly 10 times stronger than humans. If power was purely a product of physical strength, we would have a silverback in the White House...