So much of my youth and the early parts of my career was about “doing a lot of stuff.” Like many, I took a false pride in the idea that I was a highly-effective multi-tasker. Time changes perspective, right? This morning, I saw a great quote from the Dalai Lama."Wisdom is like an arrow. The serene mind is the bow that shoots."It takes a LOT of practice to get to any moment of serenity, let alone sustained serenity. In the Art of War, Sun Tzu uses the bow and arrow analogy in a different way. ...

So much of my youth and the early parts of my career was about “doing a lot of stuff.” Like many, I took a false pride in the idea that I was a highly-effective multi-tasker. Time changes perspective, right? This morning, I saw a great quote from the Dalai Lama."Wisdom is like an arrow. The serene mind is the bow that shoots."It takes a LOT of practice to get to any moment of serenity, let alone sustained serenity. In the Art of War, Sun Tzu uses the bow and arrow analogy in a different way. ...

One of the blemishes on my record as a marketer in crypto was the month I spent working with the team at IOTA. The pervading narrative is that “Jeremy is a screw up.” However, from my perspective, there are many legitimate reasons why I quit the project after only a month. When everything fell apart back in 2017, I decided to take the high road and not get in a “he said, she said” with the founder. Besides, the founder had a much larger reach and following, so I was going to lose a public PR ...

One of the blemishes on my record as a marketer in crypto was the month I spent working with the team at IOTA. The pervading narrative is that “Jeremy is a screw up.” However, from my perspective, there are many legitimate reasons why I quit the project after only a month. When everything fell apart back in 2017, I decided to take the high road and not get in a “he said, she said” with the founder. Besides, the founder had a much larger reach and following, so I was going to lose a public PR ...

I spent about 90 minutes the other day just meditating on the Apple website. I was thinking deeply about how they message with such refined elegance, simplicity, and clarity. There’s the old adage, “If I had more time, I would have written a short letter.” Variations such as “keep cutting until you can cut no more” also exist. I definitely have a propensity for verbosity. There’s a time and a place for that. Knowing the difference is pr

I spent about 90 minutes the other day just meditating on the Apple website. I was thinking deeply about how they message with such refined elegance, simplicity, and clarity. There’s the old adage, “If I had more time, I would have written a short letter.” Variations such as “keep cutting until you can cut no more” also exist. I definitely have a propensity for verbosity. There’s a time and a place for that. Knowing the difference is pr

Feeling really blessed these days. My team at RDX Works has come together in an amazing way over the past 6 weeks. We’ve hit another stride. Sometimes it’s frustrating that orchestration among teams can feel disjointed, but sometimes it just takes a while for the pieces to fit in where they belong. The beautiful thing about a well-functioning team is how much space it gives me in my day to to the deep thinking work that is required if we’re going to make it. I knew teams were important, but m...

Feeling really blessed these days. My team at RDX Works has come together in an amazing way over the past 6 weeks. We’ve hit another stride. Sometimes it’s frustrating that orchestration among teams can feel disjointed, but sometimes it just takes a while for the pieces to fit in where they belong. The beautiful thing about a well-functioning team is how much space it gives me in my day to to the deep thinking work that is required if we’re going to make it. I knew teams were important, but m...

It’s the interface through which most of us experienced Web3 for the first time. And it’s done an admirable job of staying in the lead since then. But, it’s not going to be enough to get us over the chasm to the Early Majority. Too clunky. Too geeky. Too difficult for most people to manage. Early products are not meant to be smooth and sophisticated. They are meant to just “get the job done.” MetaMask is one of those products. I’d be a bit surprised if it were still the market leader in 10-15...

It’s the interface through which most of us experienced Web3 for the first time. And it’s done an admirable job of staying in the lead since then. But, it’s not going to be enough to get us over the chasm to the Early Majority. Too clunky. Too geeky. Too difficult for most people to manage. Early products are not meant to be smooth and sophisticated. They are meant to just “get the job done.” MetaMask is one of those products. I’d be a bit surprised if it were still the market leader in 10-15...

Hundreds of years from now, when historians are pondering how the American economic empire fell apart, they will look for all kinds of causes. Increased interest on the debt as a result of incompetent politicians will certainly be one. So will moves by other countries to “de-dollarize” themselves and recover some degree of autonomy. There will be a lot of speculation. But looking deeply, some fresh mind will put 2 and 2 together and recognize that the US had the opportunity to leverage its po...

Hundreds of years from now, when historians are pondering how the American economic empire fell apart, they will look for all kinds of causes. Increased interest on the debt as a result of incompetent politicians will certainly be one. So will moves by other countries to “de-dollarize” themselves and recover some degree of autonomy. There will be a lot of speculation. But looking deeply, some fresh mind will put 2 and 2 together and recognize that the US had the opportunity to leverage its po...

I’ve noticed, throughout my blogging career, that there are days when I have an idea in my head and I can’t wait to flesh it out on the blog. Then there are days, like today, when I’m just not feeling it. It’s not fun. I’d rather be wrestling with some topic, but perhaps this is part of learning how to appreciate the stillness, the silence. Perhaps a morning like this is a reminder that, “being busy” may not be the best path at all times. Sometimes the best path is to step back, introspect, r...

I’ve noticed, throughout my blogging career, that there are days when I have an idea in my head and I can’t wait to flesh it out on the blog. Then there are days, like today, when I’m just not feeling it. It’s not fun. I’d rather be wrestling with some topic, but perhaps this is part of learning how to appreciate the stillness, the silence. Perhaps a morning like this is a reminder that, “being busy” may not be the best path at all times. Sometimes the best path is to step back, introspect, r...

I’ve been confident about Radix’s chances for a while now. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have joined as an advisor and then CMO. But you know what? As things progress in the industry and I see the direction of people trying to make the “dial-up” version of crypto better, I am becoming more and more confident. The team is coming together nicely. The community is fantastic. Word is spreading. The tech is maturing. The ecosystem economy is growing. Developers are coming. Only .01% of the TAM has been ca...

I’ve been confident about Radix’s chances for a while now. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have joined as an advisor and then CMO. But you know what? As things progress in the industry and I see the direction of people trying to make the “dial-up” version of crypto better, I am becoming more and more confident. The team is coming together nicely. The community is fantastic. Word is spreading. The tech is maturing. The ecosystem economy is growing. Developers are coming. Only .01% of the TAM has been ca...

The co-CIO of Pantera, Joey Krug, wrote a money line in the annual Blockchain letter.Looking forward, I think it seems fairly evident that the historical arc of the world’s financial rails will end up as blockchain-based systems using smart contractsI think that elegantly sums up the divide between those who “get it” and those who don’t. You either realize that’s the arc or you don’t. And I’m now at the point where if you don’t realize that’s the arc, I don’t have time for you and I feel a bi...

The co-CIO of Pantera, Joey Krug, wrote a money line in the annual Blockchain letter.Looking forward, I think it seems fairly evident that the historical arc of the world’s financial rails will end up as blockchain-based systems using smart contractsI think that elegantly sums up the divide between those who “get it” and those who don’t. You either realize that’s the arc or you don’t. And I’m now at the point where if you don’t realize that’s the arc, I don’t have time for you and I feel a bi...

Shakespeare may have once asked, “what’s in a name?” Today, he may ask “what’s in a prompt?” As ChatGPT sweeps the world, the nature of work and the skills required to be successful change with i In “Get ready for a whole new future led by AI technology”, the author, an economics professor at a management school in India writes:Providing a good prompt is vital for the quality of a chatbot’s output, for example, so knowing what to ask and how to ask would become critical. Several such technolo...

Shakespeare may have once asked, “what’s in a name?” Today, he may ask “what’s in a prompt?” As ChatGPT sweeps the world, the nature of work and the skills required to be successful change with i In “Get ready for a whole new future led by AI technology”, the author, an economics professor at a management school in India writes:Providing a good prompt is vital for the quality of a chatbot’s output, for example, so knowing what to ask and how to ask would become critical. Several such technolo...

The blog posts are long-gone as the Never Stop Marketing website has been relegated to the dustbins of history, but the concepts were there. And, if you read “the Decentralized Marketing Organization”, you’ll see a lot of the same themes. Basically, in 20176-2017, I spent a lot of time thinking about “Web3 CRM” (or what I called “WRM,” as in Web Relationship Manager). It’s been very neat to see this very industry emerge and even the “WRM” term get used over the past 6 years. Crypto-native Mar...

The blog posts are long-gone as the Never Stop Marketing website has been relegated to the dustbins of history, but the concepts were there. And, if you read “the Decentralized Marketing Organization”, you’ll see a lot of the same themes. Basically, in 20176-2017, I spent a lot of time thinking about “Web3 CRM” (or what I called “WRM,” as in Web Relationship Manager). It’s been very neat to see this very industry emerge and even the “WRM” term get used over the past 6 years. Crypto-native Mar...

We all want to be “innovative.” But if it were easy, everyone would do it, right? A recent Guardian article, The big idea: what’s the secret of innovation?, explained how, in a strange way, innovation can be predicted and framed. The key, it would seem, is as my old boss used to say “Same, but different.”The innovations that take off combine a lot of familiarity with a little bit of new.They bring “together received wisdom with some fresh thinking.” People need a baseline from which they can ...

We all want to be “innovative.” But if it were easy, everyone would do it, right? A recent Guardian article, The big idea: what’s the secret of innovation?, explained how, in a strange way, innovation can be predicted and framed. The key, it would seem, is as my old boss used to say “Same, but different.”The innovations that take off combine a lot of familiarity with a little bit of new.They bring “together received wisdom with some fresh thinking.” People need a baseline from which they can ...