Published in Coinmonks·Jun 16The Future of DeFi is Not Consumer LendingOf all the institutions that we see decaying today, our financial institutions are not one of them. In fact, the most common critique of the American economy is that we are over-financialized, not under. One can critique our government’s irresponsible fiscal and monetary policy as an area that needs reform…Defi3 min read
Jun 15$PUNIA — Leveraging Social Networks at the MarginIntro In my previous article describing the experiment I wanted to run with $PUNIA, my personal token, I talked about how the biospheric relationships that traditionally existed in communities for most of human history are all but lost in the hyper-scaled networks of megacities and social media. …Social Media5 min read
Jun 8Anime: The Medium of The Next GenerationAnybody that knows me knows that I am deeply influenced by anime. I often cite my ideal leadership style as the Strawhat Pirates [which can be understood best through this clip here] and often feel like my individualistic style is molded significantly by the archetypical shonen protagonist. Such qualities of…Anime4 min read
May 26Web3 Strategy vs. Web2 — ProductThere are two main ways in which I see Web3 strategy differing from Web2: Product Design — moving away from vertically integrated product strategy Organization Design — moving away from large, hierarchical organizations In this short, we will be talking about Product Design. Product Design Web2 product strategy largely could…Strategy3 min read
May 19Low Self-EsteemSometimes it is challenging seeing everyone you look up to seem to have this unshakeable faith and conviction in themselves. Kanye. Steve Jobs. Elon. A$AP Rocky. And when you feel like you don’t have that, you wonder if you can actually become anything like the people you look up to. …Self Improvement4 min read
May 12Future of Housing, Future of LivingIt’s often hard to think about the future of housing without thinking about the future of how people want to live. Oftentimes at Holon, and elsewhere, we get lost in the political and technical mechanisms made to describe housing. YIMBY. We should build more housing. Make zoning easier. Build more…Web 34 min read
May 10Myth of the Killer App and the Nature of InnovationI find it strange whenever I see questions about the “realness” of Web3. The elusive search that builders, investors, optimists, and cynics all engage in to find the killer use-case of Web3. It’s a strange question to ask while Bitcoin sits at almost $1T in market cap. Bitcoin to me…Innovation3 min read
May 5Financial Systems Movement Towards Equity From DebtEcosystems in nature have little concept of debt. Nature has deep concepts of mutual dependency that create incredibly complex, beautifully emergent, and quite anti-fragile systems. Such a relationship much closer resembles equity relationships. Debt is a useful tool that creates leverage at the cost of fragility. As interest payments are…Equity3 min read
May 3Idea MarketsSomebody with an idea will be able to create a market to aggregate feedback on how good or interesting an idea is. This will take place in two forms: Within A DAO: DAO token holders can use their tokens in the form of a TCR to be able to bet on which ideas…Economics3 min read
May 3Decomposing Punia with $PUNIAWhy They say you are the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with. I tend to think it is even deeper than that. The longer I live, the more I view myself as a composite of the different people I have had interactions with. …Token5 min read
