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March 2018

Tech

Juristopia

Article

Microkernel government

Article

  • "An efficient market is an outcome, not a cause, of good law"
  • Juristopia: replacing delegation with property and peer contract relationships
    • Unbundling of power
  • Keep government minimized (microkernel) and spin off all other functionality into franchises that deal with more substantive law

Today's Crypto Asset Valuation Frameworks

Article

  • Currency features: store of value, medium of exchange, unit of account
  • Store of Value
    • Ecosystem's acceptance / collective belief is foundational to a currency's position as a store of value
  • Token Velocity
    • Basically MV=PQ
    • Hodling => higher price
    • Asset design could incentivize hodling, e.g. staking
    • Hard to measure all variables, when velocity changes, hard to determine which of M, P, or Q to record corresponding change
  • INET, Crypto J-curve
    • Current utility value + discounted expected utility value, using MV=PQ to calculate price
    • M calculated as value of on-chain transaction value (PQ/V), aka network GDP
  • Network Value-to-Transaction Ratio (NVT)
    • NVT = network value / daily tx volume
    • Similar to P/E
    • Volume represents utility users derive from network
  • Daily active addresses/users
    • Similar to daily active users

A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace

Article

  • "In our world, whatever the human mind may create can be reproduced and distributed infinitely at no cost. The global conveyance of thought no longer requires your factories to accomplish."

A Cypherpunk's Manifesto

Article

  • "Privacy is not secrecy" -> "privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world"
  • Anonymity empowers us to reveal ourselves as desired and only when desired
  • To encrypt is to indicate the desire for privacy
  • "We know that software can't be destroyed and that a widely dispersed system can't be shut down"

Deep-copying in Javascript

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  • JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(...)) is the fastest (lol)
  • MessageChannel is best right now for structured cloning

30-seconds of CSS

Article

10 cheat codes for designing User Interfaces

Article

  • This is awesome!

Lesser known CSS quirks & advanced tips

Article

  • Vertical padding is relative to element’s width not height (for e.g. padding-top: 50%), lolwat

Axiomatic CSS and Lobotomized Owls

Article

  • * + * is a pretty good sibling selector (ie. no more *:last-of-type queries)!

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Life

How Light Holacracy Transformed Our Startup

Article

  • Holacracy: "eliminate all hierarchies and job titles in organizations, and replace them with a formal structure that is fully focused on getting the job done"
    • Not about decentralized chaos, but about adopting a ruleset that allows everyone to make smart and effective decisions
    • No departments, just overlapping circles that are flexible in design and function, easy to spin up and stop
    • Focus on people and their abilities, rather than their role or title

The The Whole Story of Holacracy at Blinkist

Article

  • Holacracy has a lot of misconceptions, causing clarity chaos
  • Are the best organizational systems invisible and in the aether?
  • People > process

Tribe of Mentors (Quick Lessons)

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  • Have a question for everything
  • Everyone (including your superheroes) are flawed, but they stayed focused and executed
  • Success still comes with a side of weakness; you will always have some so focus on the strengths
  • Heuristic: increase the number of uncomfortable moments in your life; they will make you stronger and more courageous
    • Always make the hard choice
  • Let kindness guide you in difficult times
  • Commit to decisions by avoiding ranking anything a seven
  • Criticism means you are doing something meaningful; push the boundaries (but listen to the feedback)
  • Being vulnerable is uncommon, and draws people closer
  • Knowing nothing is an advantage: new ideas and strategies comes from being naive
  • Plateaus before gains: "when you think there’s no progress, it’s in fact, invisible progress that you can’t see"

The Artist and the Innovator

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  • Traction is evidence of a business model, and today, business models are the product (rather than the solution)
  • Customers don't care about your solution, they care about their problems
  • Build something you know customers will buy (rather than something you hope they will buy)
  • Remove the biggest risks first by confronting them!
  • "Innovators turn inventions into working business models"

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