August 2021 | Archive

'The Bet' by Anton Chekhov

** How Figma’s multiplayer technology works

5 Lessons from China's Internet Companies

90% Of the Way to Mars

After Afterpay

Against Optionality.

Alex Haley Interviews Cassius Clay

All Wedges Are Not Created Equal

Another the Letter

APIs for the rest of us

Aravind and the Choice of Great Achievement

Art Blocks: One of the Most Unique Platforms in NFTs

Axie Infinity Has Beaten Even Ethereum in Network Fees Thanks to its Sidechain

Becoming a Rolex

Building a $12B Public Company: In Conversation with Olivier Pomel, CEO, Datadog

Building Everdale, Supercell's "peaceful" multiplayer mobile game

Business Lessons From Other People's Jobs

But, will it make the boat go faster?

Case Study: The Fall of Rick Guerin

China's ‘Big Tech crackdown’: A guide – SupChina

China’s new gaming underclass

China’s Sputnik Moment?

Collectivizing Finance: Why The Future of VC is Multiplayer

Compounding Crazy

Crypto: Parallels to Packet Switching

CryptoPunks: Digital Collectibles as Stores of Value - by Punk Capital

Culture as counterculture

Curators All the Way Down

Cybernetic Drives Towards Referential Objects

DAOJ: 2 - NounsDAO

Diaries of an Accidental Art Addict

Dots, Not Lines

Everdale by Supercell

Flavours of On-Chain SVG NFTs on Ethereum

For Trade: One $PAPER/$CLIP

FTX Trilogy, Part 1: The Prince of Risk

FTX Trilogy, Part 2: Speedrun

FTX Trilogy, Part 3: The Everything Exchange

George Saunders's Advice to Graduates

Have you hugged a concrete pillar today?

How Coinbase Ventures Became One Of Crypto’s Busiest VCs

How did people sleep in the Middle Ages?

How Hyperinflation in Venezuela Led to Clan Warfare in Old School RuneScape

How to Remember What You Read

I no longer believe that it’s possible to achieve extremely high productivity sustained over long periods of time working on difficult projects alone, so now I spend the majority of my working time co-working with my friends over video in my virtual gather.town office

Inside The Coronavirus Haul Of A Wall Street Whiz Kid

Investing in Marketplaces with Sarah Tavel and Nabeel Hyatt

Is the future of coffee in your freezer?

Keeping your slice of the pie - The Startup Founder's Guide to Equity

Leveling Up Networking for A Multi-Game Future

Living Spectacle

Metaverses

Mohnish Pabrai: What I've Learned From Warren and Charlie

My Ordinary Life: Improvements Since the 1990s

Nancy Pearl's Rule of 50 for dropping a bad book

New Internet logic

NFT's as Keys (01)

Outsourcing Virtue

Punks, Squiggles, and the Future of Generative Media

Roblox CEO Dave Baszucki believes users will create the metaverse

Roblox: Gaming, the Creator Economy, and the Metaverse

Rock, Paper, Scissors Says GO!

Seneca, Art Blocks and Sustainable Communities

Social Media Use and Its Connection to Mental Health: A Systematic Review

Solana Summer

Sticking With The Plan

Supercell's Everdale: a Genre Definer or a Pretty-Looking Social Appointment System?

The Crypto Future of Work

The Dawn of Consumer Crypto

The Day You Became A Better Writer

The Feynman Learning Technique

The Game Prototype That Had to Be Banned by Its Own Studio

The Hard Work of Being a Fan Account

The Hype Subsidy – Why Early Hype is Dangerous in Consumer Social

The IKEA Effect

The insides of pro bowling balls will make your head spin

The next big thing will start out looking like a toy

The Opening

The Pandemic Year Marked a Turning Point in Climate Change

The Rise of Long-Form Generative Art

The Strongest Crypto Gaming Thesis

The three-or-four-hours rule

The Token Society

Transcript of President Dwight D. Eisenhowers Farewell Address (1961)

Tyler Cowen is the best curator of talent in the world

Want Cheap Hermès Birkin? Take A Look at Alibaba’s Judicial Auction

What is Cryptomedia?

When $114M in CryptoPunks Sell, So Do Other NFT Projects

Why games became luxury fashion’s NFT on-ramp

Why Twitter’s New Interface Makes Us Mad