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Ray Dalio and the McNuggets
I recently read about how Ray Dalio helped McNuggets come to market. It struck me as a really interesting story, so I figured I’d write about it.
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Spending Time in Small Towns
When I take trips with friends, they tend to be to fairly remote locations.
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June 2024

How to Build a Pitch Deck
A pitch deck can be a work of art.
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More Gardens, Please
There’s an old Anna Wintour interview in which the famed Vogue editor was asked what she preferred: oceans or mountains? With a slight smile, she…
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Reflections on the State of Crypto: Q2 2024
Where we are today and where we're headed
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May 2024

AI Models with Taste
Over the past two years, there have been an abundance of new AI models.
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February 2024

New Opportunities in the Farcaster Stack
We’re seeing the emergence of a new social graph in real-time: Farcaster. Up until two weeks ago, today’s most popular client (Warpcast) looked, at face…
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How to Find Information
Finding and eliciting valuable information is one of the most useful skills someone can develop. This is an ongoing list of proxies and heuristics that…
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Running the Math on Micropayments
It’s time to try micropayments again.
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January 2024

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October 2023

Reading Two Books at Once
I recently wrote about the importance of writing down the non-obvious.
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