7/ In Super Mario video games, what matters is getting to the finish line 🏁 regardless of how many tries it takes. Mistakes are seen as part of the process. Kids know that every time they fail, they gain new insights for their next try.

"One of the things that I've always found is that you've gotta start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology. You can't start with the technology and try to figure out where you're gonna try to sell it." - Steve Jobs, WWDC, 1997

in a product discussion, "we'll test to figure that out" is a cop out for not having an assertion. where you start your journey - your v1 - always impacts where you end up. so, design with your assertions - your strong view of a better way - BEFORE you start to test them.

4/ Another set up for 1994 happened this next week in history. Mosaic version 1.0 was released on November 11, 1993. ncsa.illinois.edu/enabling/mosai… The arrival of the web set up the Information Highway business model for a fall. I'll think about how to tweetstorm 1994 on a walk now.

Hodl the rainforests!!

6/ It’s hard to overstate how bad of an idea everyone thought Coinbase was. Friends in tech said they didn’t get it or that it was a scam. I had a lot of self doubt personally, and thought maybe I was crazy for being so interested in it.

...highlights the importance of resilience and ignoring haters when trying to build something new. Nine out of ten people will think it’s a terrible idea, and be quite articulate explaining why this is to you. This will go on for YEARs.

Even after five years and many millions of dollars in revenue, I would say still about 50% of people (investors, prospective employees, etc) I spoke to thought it was a bad idea.

The wild part is that you never know if you’re crazy, or everyone else is. The key here is that if your gut tells you there is something interesting, go take some action toward it and see what happens. Only action will produce more information, not endlessly debating it.

Startups are really, really, really hard

That’s what programmable information meant: all forms of information were turned into packets and sent on the internet. That’s what programmable money means: all forms of scarcity are turned into distributed ledger entries and manipulated on-chain.

remote controlling my telepresence robot in Tokyo, Japanese cop extremely skeptical

Startup founders and VC’s finding out there’s a bank run on SVB