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Favorite Books of 2021
The best books I read in 2021.
The DAO of (Risk) Capital
Thousands of strangers recently came together to bid on an original copy of the U.S. Constitution at Sotheby’s. I was one of them.
NFTs and the future of African startup funding
Are NFTs the wedge that will unlock and accelerate capital flows to African startups at scale?
Ubuntu
USV’s Albert Wenger inspired me to scoop up a used ThinkPad, boot install Linux, and see if I could peel myself away from the walled gardens of Apple and Microsoft (for fun, if not for work). It has been decades since I used the terminal / command line in MS DOS to search directories and …
Think Synchronoptically
A lesson from my Dad that sat fallow for years until today.
End the Value-Extraction Economy
Last spring, an editor at one of the big newspapers asked me to send in an opinion piece if an idea hit me.
The Coming of the French Revolution
Snippets from the conclusion to Georges Lefebvre’s “The Coming of the French Revolution.”
Crypto is the future
Some quick thoughts on why ‘the ownership economy’ is the work of our generation
Favorite Books of 2020
Nine of my favorite reads from 2020.
Mike Casey 