Alex Wittenberg

So while it’s tempting to be purely analytical, don’t discount how far a token can get with faith, clever memes, and a cult-like following. 

This also makes it easier to see why the strategies generally recommended for defeating distraction—digital detoxes, personal rules about when you’ll allow yourself to check your inbox, and so forth—rarely work, or at least not for long. They involve limiting your access to the things you use to assuage your urge toward distraction, and in the case... See more

The proper response to this situation, we’re often told today, is to render ourselves indistractible in the face of interruptions: to learn the secrets of “relentless focus”—usually involving meditation, web-blocking apps, expensive noise-canceling headphones, and more meditation—so as to win the attentional struggle once and for all. But this is a... See more

Most of the networks we use today require active participation — whether they are social networks like Snapchat and WhatsApp or marketplaces like Airbnb and Uber. If you never open Snapchat, you add no value to the network. If you’ve never accepted bookings for your Airbnb listing, you add no value to the marketplace. Are tokens an effective way to... See more

The idea here isn't to write about one topic, one time. The idea is to take whatever you want to write about and write about it over and over again using different frameworks: you should write about it through an actionable lens, an analytical lens, an aspirational lens, and an anthropological lens (because each piece will yield a different result)... See more

Second, if the business keeps the tokens, the company bears some tax risk. Imagine your top account executive books a $5m USD contract paid in tokens. The business pays 20% tax annually which implies a $1m tax liability on the tokens. In the subsequent two quarters, the token’s price collapses by 95%, so the $5m is now worth $0.25m. Signing the cus... See more

This is the hypothesis of lorecraft as a cope.