Most teams burn the cost of an extra audit before they ever talk to an auditor. In this article I’ll show you the exact 6 step checklist I use to help teams go from “we think we’re ready” to actually audit ready for an audit.

To help this newsletter reach a broader audience and hence be useful to those who want to build real businesses, I have officially launched a new BuildBetter home on Substack and I will continue publishing here too...

ENS DAO Newsletter #105 — 2/1/2026; A bi-weekly summary of the latest news and developments from ENS Labs, ENS DAO and the ENS community.

January was ignition. February is about structure, distribution, and letting participation actually shape what happens next. We’re moving from setup mode into execution — where showing up consistently starts to matter more than just being early.February 1st UpdateAirdrop is live The ZABAL airdrop is officially live. This drop rewards early alignment and real participation. Airdrops will continue throughout all of 2026, so feel free to check in whenever you get a chance — there may be more wai...

gm zm happy new month. February arrived without ceremony, which felt right. A new page, a clean breath, nothing forced. Just the quiet awareness that another chapter is open and ready to be written. The mindful moment this morning was a reminder not to wait around for the stars to align. Progress doesn’t start when things feel perfect, it starts when you decide to move. Action creates confidence. Consistency creates momentum. Even the smallest steps, taken daily, begin to stack into something...

1. The "No-Install" Revolution The biggest friction in software is the "Install"

One of my work stories around writing is that I wrote this book in my early 20s. The self-help boom, paired with the arrival of eastern esotericism and spirituality, ignited a pretentiousness only young men recently removed from boyhood can emit. The world conquere...

With nearly four months until our hackathon & conference, we can’t be less excited for ETHPrague 2026. We announced first speakers, sponsors, kicked off side event series Road to ETHPrague and in this newsletter we’re gonna sum it all up.

GM! It was a "it's so over; we're so back" kind of week (currently writing from "it's so over" land). We started with @db and our Clankcaster Spotlight with @intori -- and it was such an insightful chat. Wednesday Rachel Wilkins jumped in the cohost seat and we had the Creatorfi unicorns stop by to chat about onchain media and collaborative creator support. Catch up on all of last week's episodes!