Working on @BTCPerception
I was a tech executive at Blockstream, VP of Marketing and Communications. And when I turned 40, I thought I was going into a role where the only responsibility was going to be endlessly managing
You know what happened and I'm not going to walk you through the timeline. I want to talk about what it says about us, and then about the thing underneath it that I think almost nobody is going to
In 2006, I was working at Universal Music in Norway. Next door in Sweden, the police raided The Pirate Bay, and our offices went into a celebratory frenzy: The labels spent millions trying to fight
Every organization on earth runs on a design the Roman Army invented. Eight soldiers share a tent, one leads them. Ten of those make a century. Six centuries make a cohort. Ten cohorts make a legion.
The Bitcoin blockchain is a living language, and seventeen years in, it's developing dialects no one predicted. I speak five languages. If there's one thing that multilingualism teaches you, it's that
Something Big Is Happening to Money Think back to 2001. If you lived in Argentina, you might have noticed a few people quietly moving dollars into safety deposit boxes. But most of us weren't paying
It happened on the factory floor first. The work was physical, repetitive, measurable. Of course it would be automated. Then it happened to the back office. Computers could follow procedures better
We're running an experiment. For the first time in history, prosperous societies are trying to function without a shared spiritual foundation. The results are starting to show. Trad religion faded
The first hour after landing in Tokyo: Carpeted floors underfoot like you鈥檝e just stepped into some forgotten relic from the 80s. The cash-only vibes remind you that Japan is still comfortable
