Even great products can fail with bad positioning. On the other hand, they can start growing like weeds when positioned correctly. I'll show you a framework that helped me...

Rediscovering Community in a Post-COVID World: The Emergence of the Neighborverse

Past research has shown that as cities get larger, people tend to walk faster. The probable explanation for this is that as cities get bigger, they also tend to get wealthier, and so the opportunity cost of not walking fast increases. In other words, people's time is worth more. Of course, there's something naturally unsettling about this. But it appears to be demonstrably true. Here's another, more recent, study that compares pedestrian behavior in 1979-1980 to 2008-2010 for four urban publi...

The Devcon team is as always extremely bullish on Ethereum and we are excited to introduce our newsletter with a fresh makeover 💅

I’m publishing this retro a bit late, but felt the need to do it, and I clearly don’t regret it. Below is a gathering of all my learning, achievements, and thoughts on various topics ranging from startup to personal items.

Henlo, and furthemore, Ooga Booga! Berachain has just launched the Boyco Vaults pre-chain program. Set & Forgetti is one of the projects deploying a special incentivized Set & Forgetti Boyco Stable Vault that features stable PoL farming with max exposure to The Honey Jar’s forthcoming memecoin, Henlo. In other words, the S&F restaurant is ready to present the first delicious dish on its menu: Pasta di Boyco, seasoned with Bera and Henlo.Now accepting deposits: S&F Boyco Vault 🍝S&F Vault Spec...

Users can stake the native token to gain ongoing, private, and uncensored access to the Venice API.

Part 3 of our OpenRank deep dive is here, and it’s packed with insights on the evolution of tokens in the Farcaster ecosystem. We explore the journeys of Degen, HAM, and Moxie and how channel tokens are scaling these innovations to empower all communities.

Writing from the sunny streets of San Francisco, I recently got the chance to explore an exciting innovation which is making waves in the tech capital of the world: Autonomous Vehicles or ghost driving as I like to refer 🙂 . San Francisco, often referred to as the heart of Silicon Valley, is a city of contrasts—home to groundbreaking innovations and yet challenged by deep social issues. It’s a place where self-driving cars like Waymo share the roads with a cityscape and areas full of homeles...

Now that I have established some basic positions on language and reality, I come to the concept of knowledge. In my book The World After Capital, knowledge plays a crucial role as I call for a transition out of the Industrial Age into the Knowledge Age. In today's Philosophy Monday, I start digging into the question of what we humans can know. The technical philosophical term for this type of inquiry is epistemology, the theory of knowledge. If language is messy and reality is messy, what can...

We recently started investing out of our newest USV Core Fund. As with each of our previous funds, while it is a new vehicle, our approach will stay the same: small fund, thesis driven, high conviction, and low velocity. We’ll focus on being long term and dedicated partners to a small number of teams creating projects and businesses that are aligned with our thesis. We’ll continue to commit once and then partner with the companies throughout their lifetimes. We run a collaborative partnership...

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Navigating Life's Little Crashes: The Role of Band-Aids in Childhood and Beyond

Set & Forgetti (S&F) is the easiest way to farm Berachain Proof of Liquidity (PoL) making it dead simple for lazy beras to earn and compound Berachain’s native liquidity rewards. Set & Forgetti automates the PoL farming process so that users can provide liquidity without needing to worry about harvesting their rewards or managing their liquidity positions–farm PoL with minimal fees and maximum convenience.

Ethereum Blockspace is valuable and there is no question about that.

Welcome back to Unlocking the Future! Today, we're exploring a seismic shift in the AI landscape with China's DeepSeek model, which is not only challenging the U.S.'s lead in AI but also redefining what's possible with far less resources.

It's almost that time of year again. Later this week, marks the start of our 14th annual ski and snowboard trip. Our group missed two years because of the pandemic and so, technically, this should be the 16th annual, but who's counting? This is a trip that happens every year like clockwork and, this year, we're checking off a big mountain destination that has been on many/most of our bucket lists: Hokkaido, Japan. If you read my recent post called "The Secrets of the greatest snow on earth," ...

This is not thought of as an AI newsletter, but rather a "what's the most intellectually interesting stuff happening in the world in the past week", and we could probably write a full book just on what has happened this week in the AI world (without counting what happened in US politics!). It certainly already feels like the week of the year in AI, and it's just the 4th! So this edition is going to be AI heavy. The absolute meltdown on X about Deepseek's new models has been fascinating to dig...

Bridget de' Medici is a multidisciplinary creator blending personal growth, spirituality, and Web3 through her project, The Gardeners. From her unconventional entry into the blockchain space to her transformative journey of self-discovery, Bridget shares how she’s building a mindful community focused on holistic growth.

Ok whoops -- we missed a week so this ones a double decker! We may have been distracted by all the gaming on Farcaster, especially Farcade -- and we had a great chat with Farcade founder @chuckstock! We also chatted with @humpty and @sahil about /cryptosapiens' use of Cura and /openrank AND big news! We are now on pods.media! Collect all our Season 3 episodes on /pods! And check out our interview with @simmons of /pods.