tech Web 3 is a Network of Formats and Formats will Build the World Last week I wrote about NBA Top Shot and a format replacement cycle occurring between traditional cardboard cards and digital ones. While oversimplified and not the entire story, people are
finance How to raise money by selling NFT's of paperclips and bananas In the last decade of tech blogging there's everything else that has been written, and then there is what Chris Dixon has written. I can't think of another person who
finance Clapping Through It Today's the one year anniversary of one of the more surreal moments of my life. A year ago, I was at Stocktwits and we rang the opening bell of the
game design Format Replacement cycles Something interesting is underway. Over the past month, NBA Top Shot, a digital collectable similar to a basketball card has exploded in interest and in price. My friend Michael Batnick
Food Friday: Duck Ragu (and Lasagna) I'm going to be blunt. Duck fucks. I love eating it. If it's on the menu, I'm usually ordering it. We aren't cooking it enough at home. I sure as
startups If You Were Starting from Scratch Today... Note: Today's post is a bit of a ramble that I wrote in pieces as I got a free 10 minutes throughout the day. I could have sent it to
finance Cardboard Picassos A couple weeks ago, two 1986-87 Fleer Michael Jordan Rookie Cards sold for $738,000 each. That's a high number, but not nearly as high as a Mike Trout rookie
finance Bitcoin is the new Buyback Earlier this week $TSLA announced that it bought $1.5B worth of Bitcoin. Since then other companies, including $TWTR and $UBER have made some noise about purchasing some, and others
product PM Software and Minimum Viable Process I'm in the early days co-founding a new company and I've been very focused on early process, culture, and how things get built. While exciting at first over the years,
finance Gas Prices, Currencies, and Enabling Economies to Scale If you've been following Ethereum at all you will see that Gas is Too Damn High. Gas prices, or the fee miners charge to use the Ethereum network has been
tech All of a sudden, Twitter is Doing Many Things As someone who built a product that started off on Twitter, I follow what they do quite closely. Often times at Stocktwits we would see our roadmaps be eerily similar
food Food Friday: Super Bowl Fixing Super Bowl Sunday is this weekend. If you're anything like me you're thinking, "I'm pretty sure this sport is fixed at the highest levels of power. Think about it. This
game design GameStop and Bartle Player Types I've written in the past that I'm very interested in Game Design as a lens for Product Design and a trend we will see really catch on in the coming
product What I've Learned so far in Product and Management Vol 2 Over the past year I've reflected a bunch on what I've learned, mistakes I've made, and slowly put together a long list of thoughts that I'm going to blog about
finance PFOF is the Ad Model for Brokerage Lots has been said about the business of Payment for Order Flow over the past five years, and even more has been discussed in the past week as Robinhood has
product An Ode to No Code One of the tech trends that excite me the most is No Code platforms, which allow those with little to no programming expertise to build applications. Perhaps the best example
finance The Billion Dollar Cartridge Tomorrow a bunch of younger investors are going to put a quarter of a million dollars into a dinosaur. I'm not talking about GameStop, rather it's the latest offering on
finance Organized Noise In market microstructure, noise traders are traditionally participants who when interacting with a market maker do not (or "should" not) inform prices at all. Traditionally retail investors would fit this
finance On Conway's Law and Social Financial Media Every now and then a stock market story comes around that captures the attention of the nation. Yesterday, we were blessed with such a story as short squeeze on all
food Food Fridays: Smoked then Fried Wings I love wings. I got sick of eating soggy delivery wings last year so started trying to perfect my own at home. This skill has come in handy during the
management Post Pandemic Trends: Offices According to researchers, the current pandemic surge has likely peaked in the US. They certainly could be wrong or we could see a new surge based on some weird variant
management The First 100 Days As Biden gets sworn in today, much of the conversation will now shift to his agenda for the "First 100 Days". The chyron will be on every cable news network
life I Hope I Didn't Just Give Away the Ending Yesterday I learned that the New Radicals are reuniting and performing at the Biden Inauguration this week. The story behind the reunion is a great one. The song that most
food Food Friday: Chicken Scarpariello Pasta (aka Scarp) Based on the reactions to last week's Food Friday about Detroit Style Pizza, I now know that most people would prefer if I just wrote about food. Perhaps one day
product The Next Wave of Consumer Social Apps and Related Miscellany A theme I've seen people getting behind is the idea that 2020 was the start of a new trend in social apps. As someone who spent most of his career
