I think it’s fair to say 2020 has been the worst year of my life. It’s also the year that taught me to appreciate what I have because it can always get worse.
My thought on the web3 discussion: there is absolutely something interesting with a lot of positive potential there, but if you buy into a bunch of Techno Utopian ideology that blinds you to the fact that power dynamics exist everywhere, you’re simply repeating past mistakes.
The whole web3 thing is fascinating to watch because you can see the early stages of a well-worn cycle repeating itself. People are desperately looking for something to believe in in the post-Facebook tech industry, and elevating an interesting new technology to messianic status.
I’ve read a lot about this stuff in the past few months, and I’ve really come around to e.g. Etherium being kind of brilliant. I do believe it has the potential to fundamentally shift a lot of power dynamics in tech and create new classes of winners and losers.
No one has their fingers on the pulse of dance crazed Zoomers like...enterprise software giant Oracle?
“Ezra Cohen-Watnick, who worked as a top White House intelligence aide linked to former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, joined Oracle just weeks before its executives began writing checks to Nunes.” thedailybeast.com/the-silicon-va…
Spent the afternoon listening to a federal court hearing about Apple and Epic games while working, and it's pretty fascinating to be able to just tune into something like this.
My favorite part: at one point the judge shut one of the lawyers down with "I control the mute button!"