bitcoin Getting started on the lightning network Getting started setting up a lightning node reminds me of how it was setting up a bitcoin wallet/node eleven years ago in 2011. There is still scant information available
reading Blockchain Domains Blockchain Domain BackgroundWhat are Blockchain Domains?Blockchain domains differ from regular, traditional domains in several important ways. Blockchain domains are an exciting development in the decentralized world. Whereas traditional domains
writing Why invest in ₿itcoin? A guide for the intelligent skeptic. Over the years i've had many questions from family & friends considering investing in Bitcoin. Each time the price starts rising, the more questions I get. What i'm hoping to
writing Building a Digital Brain Board Notebooking, Topic Forests, Trees of Knowledge & Digital “Brain Boards” Quick! What do you know about Leonardo da Vinci? He painted the Mona Lisa! He also wrote his notes backwards.
writing Why the future of work isn’t online or on-demand, it’s “On-Chain”. As crypto-networks proliferate, there’s going to be an ever-expanding amount of services that can be provisioned forming a crypto equivalent to the gig economy. Also dubbed “Generalized mining” or
writing A Meme Supreme A short history of meme evolution and how culture can become temporarily dominated by a dead gorilla. What is the most resilient parasite? A Bacteria? A virus? An intestinal worm? An idea. Resilient…highly contagious. Once an idea has taken hold of the brain
writing 9 reasons that screenshots are still broken What’s the big deal with screenshots?If you’ve been watching twitter recently, you’ve no doubt come across an increasing flood of screenshots in your feed. Chris Dixon, of Andreessen Horowitz, recently summarized the 9 ways in which screenshots are awesome here
writing Jobs-to-be-Done: Hiring Mobile Screenshots Applying the JTBD framework to the jobs we hire mobile screenshots for. Taking a screenshot on the iPhone is such a simple action, it’s no wonder so many people are taking more and more screenshots than ever before. The fact remains, no-one ever
startups Before they were famous Taglines of five different startups before and after they made it big. Coming up with a clear and concise positioning statement for your startup is one of the most important
growth It’s like Craigslist, but better! How great big things often start off as small ugly things and grow over time. I first met AirBnB Co-founder Joe Gebbia, on a cloudy October day in San Francisco
writing How Dropbox, Uber, Hotel Tonight and WealthFront leverage referrals to create an army of growth agents With the increasing popularity of referral programs, it’s becoming increasingly clear, some companies just do it better than others. Remove the Sketch EffectOne of my good friends kept sending me different invites to the extent I started considering marking his emails as spam.
data In God we Trust, all others bring data Designing a Data-Informed Decision Process with Edwards Deming: Grandfather of the Lean StartupThe late William Edwards Deming was an American statistician, professor, author, lecturer, and consultant. He is perhaps best
marketplaces How we crack the chicken and the egg problem Hatching a Design Marketplace from Scratch at Visually“…for whatever reason, people do not get distribution. They tend to overlook it. It is the single topic whose importance people understand least. Even if you have an incredibly fantastic product, you still have to get
growth 10 of the best growth hacks of all time #1 Paypal's referral bountyBy paying $10 cash to each new customer and $10 to the customer who referred them, Paypal was able to hack early growth to tens of millions of users before no longer offering the bonus. Read more here #2 Hotmail’s
GrowthHacker.TV Interview I was recently invited to give an interview on GrowthHacker.TV, which has some great interviews of Growth Hackers sharing tips & tricks of the trade. You can view the full interview on their site through this link. https://www.growthhacker.tv/?v=98&
startups Perception vs Reality: How these 5 Startups are really growing In many tech startups there often exist two different stories for how a company has gained it’s hard fought success. There is the story that gets told in the news media and distributed on sites like hackernews and techmeme, and then there is
Learning from Success vs Failure Learning from FailureLearning from failure can be summarized as learning ‘what doesn’t work’. Out of an arbitrarily large universe of possible things you could be trying (say 18,for the sake of this example), you have successfully accomplished narrowing down the scope of
startups Death by a thousand verticals There has been a Cambrian-like explosion of vertical search sites popping up over the past five years to fill the gaps that general purpose search engines like google and yahoo have not been able to fill. By specializing in a specific vertical e.g
marketing The Direct Traffic Myth Have you ever wondered how exactly “direct” traffic is measured in Google Analytics? For the most part, this traffic comes from users directly navigating to your site through their browser toolbar or a bookmark. As it turns out there could be other sources that
writing Measurability = Accountability Hypothesis: In organizations where performance can be directly measured, compensation approaches the fair market value of the output generated from such performance. Case 1: Professional Athletes The general consensus among sports fans is that professional athletes appear grossly overpaid. How can one player truly
