Yearly archive

"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives." – Annie Dillard

2022

Nov 22 -

Field Note #121. "Pin to Wall"

2022

Nov 21 -

Field Note #120. On "Market Wu-Wei, or Why Would You Want to Beat the Market?"

2022

Nov 15 -

Field Note #119. On "(Self) Trust(less)"

2022

Nov 14 -

Field Note #118. On "Not Just Panic (at the Crypto)"

2022

Nov 11 -

Field Note #117 On "Decision Integrity + Impoverished (Investor) Subject"

2022

Nov 11 -

Field Note #116. On "Risk Creep + Risk Sweep"

2022

Nov 09 -

Field Note #115. On "Fallen Angels: Overbetting with Predictive Control"

2022

Nov 08 -

Field Note #114. On "Axes of Decentralization"

2022

Nov 07 -

Field Note #113. On "Seduction of Decentralization Rhetoric"

2022

Nov 04 -

Field Note #112. On "Levin + Weekend Contemplation"

2022

Nov 03 -

Field Note #111. On "AI + Power"

2022

Nov 02 -

Field Note #110: On "Early-Stage VC & Its Discontents"

2022

Nov 01 -

Field Note #109. On "Pipes vs. Platforms"

2022

Oct 31 -

Field Note #108. On "AI and WebN"

2022

Oct 28 -

Field Note #107. On "Non-Neutrality of Phone + Social"

2022

Oct 27 -

Field Note #106. On "Bounded Rationality + Adaptive Heuristics"

2022

Oct 26 -

Field Note #105. On "Tech: In Medias Res"

2022

Oct 25 -

Field Note #104. On "Datafication"

2022

Oct 24 -

Field Note #103. On "AGI and ASI Gloss"

2022

Oct 21 -

Field Note #102. On "Strategies for Turbulence"

2022

Oct 20 -

Field Note #101. On "Metacrisis + Crypto" (part 2)

2022

Oct 19 -

Field Note #100. On "Serendipity + Altamirage"

2022

Oct 18 -

Field Note #99. On "Counter-Conventional Credit, or Venture Debt"

2022

Oct 17 -

Field Note #98. On "Via Negativa" or "Negotiation via Voss + Camp"

2022

Oct 14 -

Field Note #97. On "Metacrisis + Crypto" (part 1)

2022

Oct 13 -

Field Note #96. On "Chance"

2022

Oct 12 -

Field Note #95. On "Epistemic Arrogance, or Scandal of Prediction"

2022

Oct 11 -

Field Note #94. On "Four Decision-Making Phases"

2022

Oct 10 -

Field Note #93. On "Philosophy + Investing"

2022

Oct 07 -

Field Note #92. On "Cynicism Pathology"

2022

Oct 06 -

Field Note #91. On "Thus Spake Spitz, or Amor Fati"

2022

Oct 05 -

Field Note #90 On "Poker + (Crypto) Investing"

2022

Oct 04 -

Field Note #89. On "Polygon Light(paper)"

2022

Oct 03 -

Field note #88. On "DeFi Credit Con't."

2022

Sep 30 -

Field Note #87. On "DataFi"

2022

Sep 29 -

Field Note #86. On "Evaluating Start Up Leadership"

2022

Sep 28 -

Field Note #85. On "Effectuation Deux"

2022

Sep 27 -

Field Note #84. On "Effectuation"

2022

Sep 26 -

Field Note #83. On "Klarman (and Crypto?)"

2022

Sep 23 -

Field Note #82. On "Dai"

2022

Sep 22 -

Field Note #81. On "Virtual Machines and Related Terms"

2022

Sep 21 -

Field Note #80. On "Lessons from Adaptive Market Theory"

2022

Sep 20 -

Field Note #79. On "Core Blockchain Concepts + Mechanisms"

2022

Sep 19 -

Field Note #78. On "Token Supply, Adjustment, and Swaps"

2022

Sep 16 -

Field Note #77. On "DeFi Token Basics"

2022

Sep 15 -

Field Note #76. On "(San)Deep System"

2022

Sep 14 -

Field Note #75. On "Mapping Web3 Layers"

2022

Sep 13 -

Field Note #74. On "DeFi Solutions, Myths + Facts"

2022

Sep 12 -

Field Note #73. On "Music & Trading"

2022

Sep 09 -

Field Note #72. On "Illusion of Explanatory Depth"

2022

Sep 08 -

Field Note #71. On "AI Snake Oil"

2022

Sep 07 -

Field Note #70. On "DeFi Foundations"

2022

Sep 06 -

Field Note #69. On "Critical Reading + Investing"

2022

Sep 05 -

Field Note #68. On "Wisdom of Ed Thorp"

2022

Sep 02 -

Field Note #67. On "History of DeFi"

2022

Sep 01 -

Field Note #66. On "Trading in the Zone"

2022

Aug 31 -

Field Note #65. On "Raven Protocol Whitepaper"

2022

Aug 30 -

Field Note #64. On "AI and Compute...Moore's Law on Roids"

2022

Aug 29 -

Field Note #63. On "Gensyn Litepaper"

2022

Aug 26 -

Field Note #62. On "Risk of Ruin Visualized"

2022

Aug 25 -

Field Note #61. On "Notes"

2022

Aug 24 -

Field Note #60. On "Main Web3 Challenges"

2022

Aug 23 -

Field Note #59. On "Toolkit Theory and Innovation Cycles"

2022

Aug 22 -

Field Note #58. On "Mandelbrot's 10 Heresies of Finance"

2022

Aug 19 -

Field Note #57. On "Metaphor and Counter-Conventional Investing"

2022

Aug 18 -

Field Note #56. On "Oracle Problem"

2022

Aug 17 -

Field Note #55. On "Intertemporal Investing Edge"

2022

Aug 16 -

Field Note #54. On "Overcoming the Matthew Effect in Crypto"

2022

Aug 15 -

Field Note #53. On "Multiple Compute Nodes and Data-Level Privacy"

2022

Aug 12 -

Field Note #52. On "Save AI, Save World"

2022

Aug 11 -

Field Note #51. On "Deep Computational Burden"

2022

Aug 10 -

Field Note #50. On "Cynefin and Complexity"

2022

Aug 09 -

Field Note #49. On "Cypherpunk Hero"

2022

Aug 08 -

Field Note #48. On "Foskett's Pyramid"

2022

Aug 05 -

Field Note #47. On "Federated Learning Précis"

2022

Aug 04 -

Field Note #46. On "Benet Contextualizing Web3 in 2018"

2022

Aug 03 -

Field Note #45. On "Deep Learning Infrastructure Innovation"

2022

Aug 02 -

Field Note #44. On "Investing Epistemology: Convergence + Divergence"

2022

Aug 01 -

Field Note #43. On "DeAI"

2022

Jul 29 -

Field Note #42. On "Blockchain Applicability Framework"

2022

Jul 28 -

Field Note #41. On "Answering the Threshold Question"

2022

Jul 27 -

Field Note #40. On "Framing the Threshold"

2022

Jul 26 -

Field Note #39. On "Web3 without the Hype (part 2)"

2022

Jul 25 -

Field Note #38. On "The Threshold Question"

2022

Jul 22 -

Field Note #37. On "Fundamental Investment Framework: TradFi Edition"

2022

Jul 21 -

Field Note #36. On "Quantum Investing"

2022

Jul 21 -

Field Note #35. On "Web3 without the Hype (part 1)"

2022

Jul 20 -

Field Note #34. On "Bell Mason Diagnostic: An Intro."

2022

Jul 19 -

Field Note #33. On "The Double Diamond + a Forming Cloud"

2022

Jul 18 -

Field Note #32. On "Web 3 pre Buzzword, per Gavin Wood"

2022

Jul 15 -

Field Note #31. On "Problems with Distributed Databases"

2022

Jul 14 -

Field Note #30. Toward a "Modern Crypto Fund"

2022

Jul 13 -

Field Note #29. On "Token as Killer App: Revisiting Srinivasan's 2017 Earn.com Piece"

2022

Jul 12 -

Field Note #28. On "Blockchain, Not Slow Database"

2022

Jul 11 -

Field Note #27. On "Data Silos + Blockchain Stacks"

2022

Jul 08 -

Field Note #26. On "1 / N"

2022

Jul 07 -

Field Note #25. On "Blockchain & Power to Root Users"

2022

Jul 06 -

Field Note #24. On "Thin Applications"

2022

Jul 05 -

Field Note #23. On "Decentralized Computing Stack"

2022

Jul 01 -

Field Note #22. On "Heuristics (or Simplicity in the Face of Complexity)"

2022

Jun 30 -

Field Note #21. On "Non-Financial Application of Blockchains"

2022

Jun 29 -

Field Note #20. On "Chain Optionality"

2022

Jun 28 -

Field Note #19. On "Hazlitt's Economics in One Lesson"

2022

Jun 27 -

Field Note #18. On "Simplistic (and Basic) Justification of Tokens"

2022

Jun 24 -

Field Note #17. On "Tail Risk x Crypto," or a "Toward a Hedged Crypto Venture Fund?"

2022

Jun 23 -

Field Note #16. On "Knightian Risk, Uncertainty, Profit" (+ Crypto)

2022

Jun 22 -

Field Note #15. On "Metatransactions & User Experience"

2022

Jun 21 -

Field Note #14. On "Intro. to Smart Contracts"

2022

Jun 20 -

Field Note #13. On "Cowen & Tabarrok Textbook (pt. 2)"

2022

Jun 17 -

Field Note #12. On "Placeholder Thesis circa 2017"

2022

Jun 16 -

Field Note #11. On "Dixon Decentralization"

2022

Jun 15 -

Field Note #10. On "Amara's Law + Exponential"

2022

Jun 14 -

Field Note #9. On "Cryptography Basics"

2022

Jun 13 -

Field Note #8. On "Impossibility of Decentralization"

2022

Jun 10 -

Field Note #7. On "Morphological Token Framework"

2022

Jun 09 -

Field Note #6. On "Crypto Information Diets"

2022

Jun 08 -

Field Note #5. On "Why You Probably Don't Need a Blockchain"

2022

Jun 07 -

Field Note #4. On "Evolving Towards a Fundamental Investment Framework for Crypto"

2022

Jun 06 -

Field Note #3. On "Info Smog"

2022

Jun 05 -

Field Note #2. On "Cryptoeconomic Design"

2022

Jun 04 -

Field Note #1. On "Event-Driven" Crypto.

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