GitHub Shrugged
Open-Source developers provide free resources to giant corporations. Until they don't.
Unpacking the Web3 Sausage
Crypto is interesting for the freedom it enables, not for the freedom users currently care about. (a response to Moxie)
Snow Day
No newsletter today. We got a lot of snow last night, and I am spending the day shoveling and completing other missions. Looking for something good to read or listen to in the meantime? Check out: * Packy McCormick's The Laboratory of Complex Problems [https://www.notboring.co/p/
Don't show Me the Money
The blockchain will disappear. But first, it will uncover a whole new world.
The Unchained Web
In 2021, the internet figured out how to generate its own goods, enforce its own rules, and take what it needs from the outside world.
In Praise of Ponzis
A new economic model is emerging. Here's why it makes sense.
Crossing the Bank
A single currency is a perfect solution for a low-information world. We no longer live in one.
Crypto Quentin and Non-Fungible Taylor
NFTs will not replace copyright law. They will make it redundant.
GitHub for X
The 2020s will do to knowledge work what the 2010s did to unskilled labor.
Crypto and the Conservation of Centralization
You can't decentralize the web. At best, you can kill old winners and pick new ones. Here's how.
