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The future belongs to those that can invent it
Why are you here? What mountain are you climbing? Are you sure it is the right one?
Priorities
Learn to ask questions that develop agency to shape the future by focusing priorities
Waiho kia patai ana, he kaha ui te kaha.
- What forces are transforming the world? Do you understand them from First Principles?
- What will be the most valuable human capabilities in three years?
- What are the most valuable physical resources today?
- What happens to fiat currency when items of real value are tokenized and traded permissionlessly?
- What problems do you have the agency to solve — who else feels the pain?
- Why now — what makes this possible or urgent?
- Is this a preventative solution or a cure?
- Who's paying — and how fast do they say yes?
- What makes this 10x better than the next best thing?
- What stops someone stronger from copying it tomorrow?
- What secret protocols do you know that others don't?
- Who do you need on your team? How do you make the sum greater than the parts?
- What's your skin in the game — and what will break you?
- How fast are you learning — and what hard truths have changed your mind?
- What's your distribution edge — how do you connect with those that matter at scale?
- What's the business model — and what does each customer really cost?
- If it works, what does it transform the world in three years?
- Critical Path — how will you recognise signs you are heading in the wrong direction?
- Is the risk worth the reward for the expected time and energy to see meaningful results?
- Do you really have a choice? What are the alternatives?
Ask questions that help to know what good looks like so you can recognize signs you are on the path towards it.
Intelligence
Harmonize inner and outer feedback loops by seeking connections that improve flow and influencing meaningful progress towards fulfillment of potential.
- Dreams: Know the right things to desire
- Put conscious and consistent effort into clarifying intentions
- Ask why not?
- Know where
- Know why
- Engineering: Know how to create/get the things you desire
- Practice focusing attention on big picture and small details at the same time
- Ask how can this job be done better?
- Know what
- Know how
- Know who
Explore boundaries that define the meta of the matter to fill gaps and connect dots.
If you can picture it you can build it
Growth Mindset
AI has made the world an open university. Blockchain has made trust a programmable element. Together, they've created unprecedented opportunity to build a better platform for future commerce that is open and fair.
Don't waste your time building another app that adds to the noise. Engineer better protocols that add to the platform. Enable people to connect with purpose.
The greatest determinant of happiness is community. Technology should enhance this, not replace it.
Positive Sum Games
Play Positive Sum Games: There will never be a more important time in human history to experiment with ideas than the next three years. Money is just marketing and credit follows credibility and culture forms liquidity, the games we choose to play are strongest cultural influence.
- Vertical expertise that solves real problems
- Distribution channels no middleman controls
- Access to data no one else has
No marketing strategy beats word-of-mouth from true fans. No sales pitch beats endorsement from trusted connections. The best coach is someone who just solved your problem.
Dream Big, Think Global, Act Local
Collaborative Culture
People don't want technology. They want happiness. They want connection. They want to matter. Crypto must evolve from being about technology to being about culture. Meeting in real life (IRL) strengthens social currency. This is how the first stock market was created-people connecting over drinks, building trust.
- Shared purpose that transcends profit
- Trust mechanisms that reduce uncertainty
- Incentives that align individual and collective goals
- Spaces (physical and digital) for meaningful connection
Enable good people to do good things.