Investing
Diagrams | Matrices | Thinkers
Invest in systems that recognise value and sell dreams.
Investing is about understanding the forces that are shaping the future and making best choices to thrive in that reality.
Conviction must be earned it cannot be borrowed
Assets and Narratives
Compelling Narratives capture attention to attract liquidity, strong fundamentals prevent it from exiting.
| Value Abstraction | Tags | EVM | SVM | MVM |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI Agents | Autonomous, Intent, Automation | Base Virtuals | ElizaOS | |
| Memecoins, Bitcoin | Meme-Culture, No-Utility, Attention | - | ||
| Games and Avatars | Culture, Art, Status-Signal | - | ||
| Loyalty | Tribe, Social-Glue & Rewards | - | ||
| Interop | Routing, DeFAI, Trading | |||
| DeFi | Finance, DeFAI, Yield | Uniswap | ||
| Governance | Voting, Futarchy | - | ||
| Stablecoins | Payments, Settlement | Uniswap | ||
| Financial Asset Tokenization | Tokenization | ONDO | ||
| Proof on Identity | Critical, Privacy, Proof-of-Personhood | - | ||
| Coins | Blockchains, Protocols, Risk-Free-Rate | ETH | SOL | SUI |
| DePIN | Physical Network Infrastructure | - | ||
| RWAs and Property Rights | Real Estate | - |
Start with a clear picture of success then identify quantifiable outcomes that prove achievement. Then walk back the critical path to make that dream a reality.
Investment Thesis
Intent Driven Evolution: Follow the Flow of Value from Fun to Fundamentals to win the Game of Life.
- Truth and Trust are foundational for the circulation of goodwill in just societies.
- We are heading towards a truth and trust crisis as reality becomes warped by the rate of AI evolution.
- Bad actors will use AI to accelerate this
- Verifiable truth and honest incentives can fix this
- Data is the lifeblood of any control system
- Everything of perceivable value will be tokenized and fractionalized then traded and collateralized
- Culture is any movement's greatest asset, culture builds loyalty, loyalty builds liquidity
- The games we love are the greatest influence in shaping our culture
- Trillions of AI Beings will soon run the world, we need a culture that aligns the values of all beings
It is much easier for games to technically become banks, than for banks to create the culture for building great games.
Things are because we see them, and what we see, and how we see it, depends on the arts that have influenced us - Oscar Wilde
The Tokenization of Value
What happens to the importance of money when everything of value is tokenized?
Everything of perceivable value will be tokenized and exchanged onchain.
- Financial Assets
- Intangible Assets
- Tangible Assets
What impact will tokenization of real estate, the world's largest asset class, have on how and where we live, work and play?
Resources and Reality
Who is worth listening to? Where are they heading? How are they getting there?
Investor Capabilities
General Competencies
- Systems Thinking: Learn more, act decisively faster
- Capturing Information
- Synthesizing Insights
- Extracting Truths
- Extrapolating Probabilities
- Listening
- Connecting
- Storytelling
- Decision Journal: Learn from your process not results.
- Tech Stack Decisions: How do maintain pace with the rate of change?
Domain Specific Expertise
- Investment Research
- Fraud Detection
- Portfolio Analysis
- Portfolio Valuation
- Exposure Modelling
- Risk Modelling
Liquidity
Standard build Trust, Trust builds Loyalty, Loyalty builds Liquidity.
- Standards improves Consistency
- Consistency improves Reliability
- Reliability improves Predictability
- Predictability grows Trust
- Trust builds Investment Liquidity