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on reading and catching up

I love the idea of knowledge as a stream you step into. Reading, listening, or watching isn’t about catching up or exhausting tasks to be done, the current…

in defense of voice notes

The practice of communicating using voice notes – short-ish spurts of words spoken into a device – is far from universal. In Latin America most people elect to…

on decentralized decision-making

Reading through how a DAO – @LidoFinance in this case – makes decisions illustrates the importance of writing and communication for getting anything done in a decentralized environment.…

on recruiting in web3

There is a fundamental shift in how web3 organizations vs Web 2.0 companies verify identity vis a vis new contributors. Would you rather try to figure out what…

On AI and human labor

Someone – perhaps it was Marc Andreessen, it sounds like something he would say – once said that there will be two kinds of people in the future,…

On Big Tech Innovation and Investment

When you compare the way the biggest five technology firms behave and the way regulators publicly talk about their businesses there is a fundamental disconnect. Microsoft, Apple, Alphabet,…

reseña: Why We Sleep

Creo que nunca dormí bien hasta pasados los 30 años. Una combinación de malos hábitos, falta de información y rinitis alérgica atentó contra mi habilidad de conciliar el…

La creatividad no es lineal

La creatividad – como la vida – no es lineal. Es brillante @Oatmeal: te muestra el problema y la solución que él encontró, siempre con compasión. Te toma…

reseña: the hard thing about hard things

El mes pasado terminé este increíble libro, de los mejores de “management” que vas a encontrar. Más allá de tener muchos buenos consejos, es una fuente candida y…

sobre plataformas y non-zero-sum

Hay dos maneras de competir: pensando que para ganar todos los demás tienen que perder, o entendiendo que hay otro camino, donde elevando a todos alrededor tuyo vos…