I’m excited to announce that I’ve been offered, and accepted, the role of CEO of DEFY Labs. …

Hello friends of DEFY, and fellow advocates for the disruption of Future Systems’ nefarious geopolitical influences! This blog is a fork of our primary blog, because it’s aimed at a different audience. This blog is for our fellow hackers, engineers, and people interested in going a bit deeper in joining…

In this post I want to explore social inequality and what people in positions of social privilege can do to improve the situation by using their privilege to make things a tiny bit more equal. Are you privileged ? Here are some questions to help you figure it out: Are…

Recently someone in my VC/startup community AfterWork asked: “Has anyone thought about building the infrastructure layer for a new way of monetizing content on the internet — pay for dwell time (or other heuristic for # of words read). Feel like it could unlock the next generation of media businesses” …

Recently I’ve been heavily participating in a community set up by AfterWork Ventures. We’re a group of Angels, VCs and Founders all getting better at life, together, through helping and learning from each other. The main topics we explore tend to be investing, startups, crypto, web3, philosophy and geopolitics. We’ve…

I’ve been a fan of stoicism since I came across Ryan Holiday’s book “The Obstacle is the Way” 3 years ago. I feel like it’s helped me enormously in building equanimity, which is something I struggle with. That said, there is a core tenet of Stoicism that I struggle with…

The goal of this article is to provide a case for the adoption of agile software methodologies in data warehouse software development and demonstrate how it is possible. Background Data warehouses have been employed as a means of providing a single source of truth about what’s occurring in a business since…