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Fred Ehrsam

@FEhrsam

13 Apr 20

@GrahamDuncanNYC

Psychologist Robert Kegan's work on stages of adult development has been one of the most influential on me in the last year (thanks @GrahamDuncanNYC)

In short, Kegan believes development is the ability to make object what was once subject, unlocking higher level systems thinking

Very useful as a framework for improving as a manager, in relationships, and in thinking broadly.

Good Stanford Psychology summary here: tomprof.stanford.edu/posting/1110

There are 5 stages of adult development in Kegan's model. A few of the stages (what he calls "Orders"):

Order 0: Total inability to grasp concepts or separate any experiences from the self. Are subject to everything occurring around then. Newborn babies are Order 0.

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Fred Ehrsam

@FEhrsam

9 Nov 19

Availability Cascades: how to spread an idea through a large population

chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewconten…

Why is it important to understand availability cascades?
They determine which ideas spread in the world and which do not. How much an idea spreads is often independent of merit/truth if it gains sufficient momentum.

What are availability cascades?
“A self-reinforcing process of collective belief formation by which an expressed perception triggers a chain reaction that gives the perception increasing plausibility through its rising availability in public discourse”

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Fred Ehrsam

@FEhrsam

19 Oct 18

An abundance of high quality and cheap digital entertainment = a lot less young men working. Excellent piece by Andrew Cortina.
kortina.nyc/essays/kinky-l…

The optimistic view: this is a rapidly growing new frontier offering lots of opportunity, it just happens to be digital rather than physical (ex: space).

I suspect blockchain-based digital assets will make virtual economies very real. People will be able to earn their entire living in virtual worlds in the next 10-15 years, changing the definition of “work” itself.

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Fred Ehrsam

@FEhrsam

30 Jan 18

1/ Token curation markets use economic incentives to create crowd curated information feeds/lists on any topic. Feels like what will become an important crypto primitive: medium.com/@simondlr/intr…

2/ Core idea: the token holders of the feed have an incentive to create the best feed possible to attract as much attention as possible. More attention --> more valuable feed tokens because of their value to others who want their content in the feed.

3/ A lot of life comes down to effective information processing. Specifically, creating ranked lists. They are the root of decision making: consider options, rank them, take action. Curation markets can do this on an arbitrary number of topics. Potential scope is huge.

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Fred Ehrsam

@FEhrsam

5 Jan 18

The spectrum of funding blockchain development:

1/ No direct funding. Rely on the incentives of existing token holders and good will of the community to develop public infrastructure.

2/ Private funding.
Large holders, companies/projects building on the chain, or open crowdfunds create programs to pay for development.
Example: Bitcoin.
Upsides: simple, decentralized.
Downsides: tragedy of the commons.

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