I must admit, I have a mixed relationship with traditions and everything traditional. It started with "all traditions are good and should be preserved" and then slowly changed to "most traditions are boring and lack any soul". But it might be just me. I write about this again because it's the Christmas season now. We all run around like crazy to buy presents and ingredients to prepare the best (or biggest) meals of the year that will be shared with family, friends, and maybe colleagues.  My gr...

I believe there's this cool fact about Moxie - that it caters to creators of any type and supporters who don't feel the need to trade every day. It seems to be built with long-term sustainability in focus. That's rare.  If SocialFi is to reach beyond degen population, then non-trading supporters will be the absolute majority. Even if it doesn't look like it in your CT feed, most people don't need or want to spend their days betting, pardon me - trading things. They want ways to support and par...

I do not doubt that the future of energy grids will include a mix of state (or monopolistic) grids, many small(ish) private energy grids, and even more off-grids.  Running your off-grid electric system may soon become economical. In sun-rich locations, hacking it off-grid may already be economical. Falling battery and solar panel costs make this a plausible solution.  The problem I see here is that bureaucrats were never good at sensibly changing the status quo, and bureaucrats are what we hav...

There's still not enough M&A activity happening in Web3 in general. The most recent the HUG acquisition by .Art reminded me of that. I believe M&A activity is necessary component of healthy ecosystem that works for the long term benefit of all participants. There needs to be a way for founders and teams to exit, to merge and join other teams they align with which have complementary skills or audiences. It's just natural option for growth or changing directions. Also, M&A is never d...

Today is about a very divisive topic - memecoins or shitcoins or community coins as they're sometimes called. It seems there are only two emotions these coins evoke, either love cos you made (or hope to make) money for nothing, or hate cos they pollute our feeds and are pump'n'dump schemes that make no sense in 99.9% of the cases.  I've intentionally used both ways of spelling these in the headline because memecoins are with us longer so we made it a word. Makers and marketers of the newest it...

This rule is as good for work as it is for life. If you’re building anything:  … a project … an app … a protocol … a business - a house or if you're learning anything; you must remember that work will always fill the time you assign to it. It’s very old wisdom. It’s called Parkinson’s Law and it works without fail 😉 Shortening timelines is the easiest team and your personal hack how to accomplish more faster. Our mind is not the best at estimating the length of activities, especially...

On my day #10 of daily writing (tomorrow) I plan to ask on Farcaster if there are any other folks who might be interested to get a head start on 2025 by starting to build a daily writing muscle right now. I will ask in the FirstDraft channel where aspiring writers share their weekly writing and get paid back part of their subscription fees. It's a great model, but not a sustainable one for daily writing. Daily writing is a completely different type of a muscle. While you can do weekly writing ...

Bitcoin hit $102.000 and I had this really sad almost depressed moment when I woke up in the morning.  I woke up and when checking the prices along with morning coffee and discovered that bitcoin has passed $100,000 and I didn’t have any bullish positions open. You see, I was thinking about it about 12 hours ago and I wasn’t sure if it’s gonna happen or we will dip more before push up so I decided intentionally that I am not gonna open any position not to wake up liquidated.  "Let's see how t...

One of the best advice I've got over the years was - when promoting or selling your thing always try to think more about possible pull creation than push marketing. But most of the time when anyone (me included) starts to think about possible ways of promoting (aka selling) something to their target audience - they will think about push strategies. In crypto it's mostly    -> let's do airdrop, let's give people tokens, let's sell them   NFTs, let's create elaborate quests to have them grin...

I received this prompt in the First Draft which is a writing group on Farcaster and I usually don't write to prompts because I write about how to build better businesses and companies, but this one kind of stuck.🙄 Why? - Because it is tricky question that most overachiever A-types don't know how to answer. Well, unless they've taken the company public or landed on the moon.  I have never considered myself overachiever, just a normally ambitious person, but even I have problem to answer questio...

This might be slightly controversial topic but I often get asked by founders or students if they should focus on only on their strength or they need to become what society calls "super man/girl" great at everything. And the answer depends on your chosen journey.  If you chose to be an entrepreneur or a founder then by default you have decided that you will have to spend time doing things you are not particularly good at. That's before you can afford to hire people to complement your strengths a...

I think the idea of a bunch of communities for different interests is a genius long-term proposition. Especially for people like me. People who like to switch and mix topics during their day by posting and discussing topics in different bubbles. It's well-known fact that algos on traditional web2 socials don't like that at all. But I feel it's pretty normal that if an account is run by a normal human who's looking for connection, learning, or fun and not by a bot or some influencer who does it...

I've been in crypto on and off for a very long time. No, I'm not the smart believer who jumped on it in 2013. I'm just an explorer who likes to try new things early and then wait if they catch on. I'm saying that to give you a context for my observation that the crypto community at its majority seems to have moved from believers to entitled brats and scammers.  It feels like we have moved away from:  "Don't ask what the community can do for you, ask what you can do for your community!" - etho...

I admit, more than anyone, I am crazy about new apps for pretty much anything that is related to photography, AI, knowledge management, note-taking, trading, investing, and socials.  There's, of course, always this wave of excitement followed by the wave of despair (classic sinusoidal for nerds). It starts with a thirst for "the new" which can only be satisfied by finding and trying some new apps that must (supposedly) be better than the old apps and will be more enjoyable. That phase is follow...

I am coming back to my Daily Writing Challenge where I plan to work short notes on topics of my interest that act mostly as sparks for longer posts in my newsletters or podcasts. I am stoked about this publishing platform which works directly from Standard Notes because this note-taking app has been my go to app for a number of years for everything I want stored encrypted ...just for my eyes you could say. And now I it's so easy to publish that it's criminal not to do it! :)  See you tomorrow...