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Winter is coming

The best time for wealth creation is coming. Some call it winter, I call it the winter before spring.

The Three Tokenomics Problems and a Productivity-Linked Tokenomics Design

I just wrote a draft paper about: 1) The Three Tokenomics Problems 2) an attempt to mitigate them with a Productivity-Linked Tokenomics Design Here's a short Twitter thread. Here's the full text on SSRN.

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Open Future and Fixed Past

How open is our future and why is our past fixed?

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Some updates on DeFi

In case you haven't noticed, I have gone all-in web3. I think some boomers used to call it 'crypto' Some updates on the content I made on Twitter: How Inflation-betting worksWhy are speculators noisy if they shorted a token?Algorithmic stablecoin: a deep dive into FraxFeel free to DM me

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Build myths around alumni founders

European universities need to build founding myths around alumni startup founders. No myths, no aspirations, no inspirations for our next generation.

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From token-gate to contract-gate

I am hosting a crypto dinner at the RICH hacker house in Oxford. However, the noise:signal ratio here is terrible. What should I do to make sure that everyone is actually actively building in Web3, rather than just being 'interested in Web3'? By convention, the host bears the responsibility

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On Digital Cash: historiography and ontology of money

Indulgences about Ideas Invent Technology, Web3 is a Deleuzian Control Society, and Value as Data

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Adventurers, Imperialism and Hong Kong

A book review of China Bound: John Swire & Sons and Its World Amazon.co.ukJohn SwireThe Swire Group is everywhere in Hong Kong: the airline Cathay Pacific, the property development Taikoo Shing, Food & Beverages Coco-Cola Hong Kong, and cargo shipping. What I learnedThe history of Swire is a

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A Manifesto to Build the first RICH House

The first hacker house for young founders in the UK Welcome to the first hacker house in Oxford. From HBO: Silicon ValleyWe write this manifesto to publicly announce that we have started a co-living house for aspiring Rebellious Intellectually Curious Hustlers (RICH). It is the first hacker house in Oxford

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An Investigation into the Passage of Time

A philosophical inquiry on phenomenology, ontology, and epistemology; 1st Prize in University of Sheffield Philosophy Essay Prize 2018

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From The Great Man to The Great Founder Theory: Bezos, Musk, and Systrom

A meditation on agency, historiography, and inevitabilityFor the best reading experience, please read this on my website on a browser so that you can use the table of contents A meditation on agency, historiography, and inevitabilityPrelogue: The Great Man TheoryPart I: Amazon UnboundPart II: Elon MuskPart III: No filterFrom The

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Minimal Viable Lifestyle (MVL)

MVL, take risks, and enjoy the ride For the past few months, I have considered dropping out. A less risky option is to take a gap year. Unfortunately, I have only got one more year of university left. So I succumbed to the sunk cost fallacy and decided to finish