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
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
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,
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
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
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
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
management What the Best Golfers Know About Execution Every now and then you come read something or come across an idea that is so obvious and simple that it haunts you. In a good way. I recently got
game design Build the Toy First Last week I wrote about how most teams build really bad MVP's. One alternative to Minimum Viable Product, I've heard mentioned by some people is Minimum Delightful Product. I don't
management What I've Learned So Far in Product and Management (Vol. 1) Taking a break during the pandemic gave me plenty of time to clear my head and reflect. Over the past 9 months, I put together a running list of thoughts
life Write Every Day It's the first (real) day of the new year, when everyone's resolutions are likely just starting and full of hope. I came across this on Twitter over the weekend which
finance Coinbase, Facebook, and Why Values are What Really Matters This week Coinbase CEO, Brian Armstrong, published a Medium post reaffirming its mission to "create an open financial system for the world" and announcing that Coinbase would not be a
life Bull City Now that I've given props to the place I left, I wanted to write why I'm so excited about my new home, Durham, NC or as it's called - Bull
life Unburnt Out and Back to work Back in early March I left Stocktwits after nearly 11 years. My time at Stocktwits was an incredible experience. I joined a few months after the March 2009 bottom and
