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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
tech Fear and Loathing in Crypto “There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning. And that, I think, was the handle - that sense of inevitable victory
tech The Comment Section Insurrection The events we witnessed yesterday at the Capitol were awful, sad, jarring, and scary. A common reaction I saw echoed on TV and on Twitter was, "This isn't who we
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 Spotify is Other Music delivered at Scale I love music and I'm a heavy user of Spotify. Like many others, I really enjoy their annual "Wrapped" feature where they produce a personalized summary of my year using
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
product Analog and Digital Junk Drawers and the Beauty of Roam Research Today I was straightening up the kitchen, and noticed that a bunch of random stuff was accumulating on top of a bench by the window. I was trying to figure
