Product Study: Falcon 9
Last week I was outside of Vandenberg Air Force Base to watch the launch of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket. (It was perfect weather and an amazing experience for my first launch!) To commemorate it, this is...
View ArticleTokenized Securities and the Future of Ownership
In the coming years, Tokenized Securities are poised to take over existing financial markets and create many where they didn’t exist before. This is only now possible due to the invention of...
View ArticlePolaroid, Apple’s spiritual successor
I just finished 2 books on the history of Polaroid 🌈*. A remarkable tech company with enormous success in consumer and industrial applications for decades. It’s also remarkable just how much Apple was...
View ArticleAdvantage Flywheels
Competitive advantage can be represented visually as 1 or more feedback loops. These create the advantage “flywheel” that maintain and grow a moat over time. Think of a big, heavy wheel that takes some...
View ArticlePandemic Memo
The following are my thoughts taken from a memo to family office investors I sent out today regarding the pandemic. These are unprecedented times in modern history. Not since World War II has there...
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Build Series: Frameworks for Effort
In April, Marc Andreessen put out the call to build. It was in response to our failure to control and mitigate the effects of Covid-19 — institutions on every level were unprepared for the pandemic,...
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Tech Stack Trees
Every product is built on and enabled by one or more technologies. Understanding where a product fits on its higher-level tech stack is an important part of any long-term strategy or investment...
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The Future of Space, Part I: The Setup
Expansion of life across our solar system and beyond has been a dream of mine since childhood. Of course, this isn’t uncommon among other sci-fi enthusiasts, or anyone who grew up knowing we’ve sent...
View ArticlePassages from “The First Tycoon”
The following are passages from the book The First Tycoon by T.J. Stiles. The book is a biography of Cornelius Vanderbilt, who built a steamship and railroad empire in the mid-1800s. More than that,...
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Roundup: Space updates, Progress studies, New World’s Fair, Web3, DAOs, and...
Greetings FutureBlind readers! It’s been a while. Although I have 3 or so posts outlined and in various states of completion, life has gotten in the way. My wife and I’s first child is due in a few...
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