The future is Nearbound. Co-founder @nearbounddotcom, CMO @reveal_platform. Founder & Advisor @discoverpraxis, @hackingcareers. Relentless pursuit of freedom.
Feb 16, 2022 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Trucker has bank/credit card shut down by government.
Needs to pay phone bill, get food, gas, cup of coffee ASAP.
How does bitcoin help him?
If he sets up non-custodial wallet and someone sends him BTC, then what?
Can't buy stuff with it. No one accepts it. If they did, gov't could shut them down too.
Can't sell it bc all exchanges KYC.
Jul 13, 2020 • 28 tweets • 7 min read
Why you should burn your resume. (A thread.)
I issued a challenge to myself years ago when I was a young professional at a lot of events meeting people. I wanted to see if I could tell people who I was without reference to my age, education, or job titles.
I had to learn to tell my story instead of my status. (And applied this generously - medium.com/the-mission/te…)
It turns out, once you crack this, the results are dramatically better!
Instead of relying thoughtlessly on third-party conferred status symbols, I had to look for...
Feb 22, 2020 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
We're drowning in information and almost all of it is terrible.
I remember a friend telling me of the coming "infocalypse" more than a decade ago. I didn't get the problem.
Now I see the pain everywhere.
Part of what we're doing at Crash is bucking this trend.
Information is so cheap, every info problem is being solved with quantity.
We're juveniles in the info age. We're excited by this new low cost info so we just pump it out everywhere and apply it to everything.
Need more quality info? No problem, solve it with more quantity!
Jul 17, 2019 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Framework I'm thinking about:
Marketing Debt
Startups talk about tech debt and management debt (building stuff now for expedience that can last long term and will cost you down the road to rebuild on solid footing)
These are not bad. Or good. They are tools with costs and benefits.
Too little tech debt means you're overbuilding and sacrificing speed for early core users.
Too much and you create an unplayable backlog and might go tech broke.
Jun 18, 2019 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Young people worry a lot about "Selling their soul", taking a job that compromises their true self, etc.
Reality is, no one is trying to buy your soul when you start your career. It's not yet valuable enough to sell if you wanted to.
At first, it's almost impossible to sell your soul. With rare exceptions of a few things you know really make you dead inside, every opportunity is fine and won't compromise your essence. You don't yet know what your essence is enough.
Mar 14, 2019 • 18 tweets • 3 min read
1/ The signaling theory of education is correct.
Except a degree is not a signal of employability.
It's a signal of adherence to the dominant social status religion of the day.
2/ Evidence is everywhere.
The mother who pressures her successful, happy, entrepreneur child to get a degree, while she proudly brags about her depressed, unemployed, basement-dwelling degreed child.
Aug 24, 2018 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Coders as priests: once, only those who knew Latin, Greek had access to the Truth, and had to mediate it to everyone else. Non-clergy had no idea if their priest was good/accurate or bad/taking advantage of them.
Three things reduced the power of priests:
-competition: more entering priesthood/competing methods (minor)
-institutional innovation: some daring to translate Truth into common tongues (moderate)
-technology; printing press enabled mass reach of above (major)
