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Value System

If you cannot define what you value, how can you hope to create it?

Context​

Expectation impacts experience.

Value is a matter of perspective.

Assets​

What is most valuable?

  1. Time
  2. Trust
  3. Standards
  4. Platforms
  5. Problems

Time​

Success is being surrounded by good people and fulfillment is a state of mind.

  1. I wish I hadn't worked so hard
  2. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends
  3. I wish I had let myself be happier
  4. I wish I had the courage to express my true self
  5. I wish I had lived a life true to my dreams

The top five death bed regrets

Trust​

Consistent outcomes build irrefutable trust.

  1. Decision making process, Accurate, Fair
  2. Time with trusted connections
  3. Insights from trusted information
  4. Data generated by trusted connections
  5. Protocols that consistently deliver expected outcomes
  6. Platforms that execute censorship resistant protocols

Evolve better questions to seek the truth.

Standards​

Evolution is built upon broadly replicable standards.

Mantra

Live your values or live a lie

Platforms​

The verifiable web using standards build platforms of digital and physical infrastructure.

Problems​

Problems are your source of potential value and yet a problem solved is a problem forgotten. Capture the pain so you can sell the solution by empathizing with the emotional triggers that instigate the impulse to take action.

Marketplaces​

What drives a positive exchange of value between customer and supplier?

Success​

  • What qualities/experiences are valued most?
  • Why are they valued?
  • Who has the strongest demand?
  • What drives demand?
  • What price will they pay?
  • How do you build it?

Customer​

Buyer's perpective of value: (memorise behavioural biases)

Supplier​

Sellers's perpective of value:

  • Virality
  • Stickiness
  • Pricing power
  • Cost of supply

Sources of Value​

  1. Personal: character, capabilities and habits
  2. Connection: appreciation, recognition and belonging
  3. Intelligence: broad knowledge of how to do things
  4. Real World Assets: resources to act on intelligence
  5. Capital: create leverage and last the distance
  6. Alignment: collaborative co-ordination

Real World Assets​

Engineer a platform to optimise leverage

Cryptocurrencies​

Base operating principles/values of a crypto backed internet.

  1. Decentralisation
  2. Trustless Execution