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If you want to understand career moats, understand competitive arbitrage. It is the background and justification for the pursuit of a moat.

Career moats consist of rare and valuable skills. But there are other things that are rare and valuable in a career. Here are a few examples.

A look at the recent Platform Week from Cloudflare, and how it is enabling the programmability of the web.

A fresh look at new CIO spending intent surveys in security and data.

What we can glean from Cloudflare One Week.

Why the difference between them matters for career growth, and how to determine which one you work in

TerraUSD's collapse last week shows why algorithmic stablecoins aren't exactly stable Read this edition online Wednesday, 18 May 2022 Tokenised is your weekly read to navigate and mine the rich vein of crypto developments that flow through India and Southeast Asia.

The players are different, but the game is the same. F. Augustus Heinze was the founder of United Copper Company and one of the "Three Copper Kings" of Butte, Montana. United Copper produced 40 million pounds of copper a year. By 1906, Heinze was rich and set his sights on the financial markets. Heinze had two brothers, Otto and Arthur, who devised a "short squeeze," not unlike the one that happened to GameStop in January 2021. Otto had realized that United Copper had 105% short interest – i.e

The scalability trilemma states that blockchains must choose to optimize two of the three properties: * Scalability –transactions per second (throughput) and transaction finality (latency) * Security – the cost to mount of a 51% attack, cost to validate state * Decentralization – the cost and ability to run a node or participate in the network Many of the web3 call themselves decentralized de jure – the network must be decentralized due to the rules of the underlying technology: built on bl

Changes in the macroeconomic environment have pummelled the crypto sector. A recovery (or rebound) may occur down the line, but it’ll be equally fragile if things remain unchanged

Most web3 applications will probably be more off-chain than on-chain. And I think that's OK. Sufficiently decentralized technologies have a reasonably low cost of participation, a reasonably low level of censorship, and a reasonably low level of trust among actors. What's reasonably low? It depends. Take a look at how the web works today. Sufficiently decentralized – it may be difficult to become a domain registrar, start an ISP, or run your own DNS infrastructure (that others use), but anyon

On how tokens can be used to jumpstart and breakdown network effects

As Web3 becomes a major new industry in the startup technology sector, the question is increasingly asked, as it has been with each prior cycle of digital innovation: How it will involve business and IT?

When interest rates rise, keeping EMIs constant may be more trouble than it’s worth Read this edition online Monday, 20 June 2022 A weekly newsletter about how finance is getting supercharged by tech in India, and how you can make money work for you.

Eight Secrets to getting rich, from Felix Dennis: 1. Analyze your need. Desire is insufficient. Compulsion is mandatory. 2. Cut loose from negative influences. Never give in. Stay the course. 3. Ignore “great ideas.” Concentrate on great execution. 4. Focus. Keep your eye on the ball marked “The Mon

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In college I first heard Jason Fried from Basecamp talk about how making money is a skill—like playing the drums or piano—that you can get better at over time. That resonated with me immediately. I wouldn’t expect to be able to sit down at a piano for the first time an

Don’t worry, Y Combinator fans, you’ll be able to write off this entire opinion piece as the disgruntled musings of “a failed startup founder who was never able to get into Y Combinator,” because seen through one lens, that’s exactly what I am. But, damn it, for a while there, being a Y Combinator company […]

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