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Online community lifecycles and my de-platforming from Facebook

November 14, 2020November 14, 2020
Social Media

I was recently deactivated from Facebook. Not suspended for a few days or weeks — literally deleted. My high crime that warranted

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I’m a technology relic

November 13, 2020
Tech

Found this sorting through old stuff my mom had saved in storage. She saved a print out from one of my first

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Hey look at the calendar, where did I go?

November 12, 2020November 12, 2020
General

Wow, I had no idea this excursion into blockchain would consume 500% of my time since committing to launching 10XTS. I say

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Blockchain eating Wall Street? How about eating the world?

May 27, 2017November 13, 2020
Blockchain

Back in the olden days of the early internet, this really smart guy, Don Tapscott, wrote an amazingly visionary book called The

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Say Hello to Heaven

May 18, 2017May 18, 2017
Music

Chris Cornell was one of the icons of my youth. He was one of the foundations of the grunge music era. People

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The Science of Persuasion

May 17, 2017May 17, 2017
Marketing/Sales

I’ve always been fascinated with marketing psychology. Especially in the context of marketing copywriting and sales. One of the world’s foremost leaders

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Defy Ventures – Step to the Line

May 16, 2017May 17, 2017
Accelerators/Venture Capital

I was first introduced to Defy Ventures and their mission at FounderCon, the Techstars global annual conference that was held in Cincinnati

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The 48 Laws of Power

May 15, 2017May 17, 2017
Leadership

The 48 Laws of Power is an amazing study into the power dynamics between people by Robert Greene. In a way, it's

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How to Spot a Lie From a Former CIA Officer

May 14, 2017May 17, 2017
Leadership/Sales

One of the more important components of successful business relationships is trust. In my own experience, whenever my trust has been broken

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Austin Kleon: Steal Like an Artist

May 13, 2017May 17, 2017
Innovation/Marketing/Startups

Austin Kleon is an interesting dude with a bold openness that’s refreshing. In fact, every academic and engineering person on the planet

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@still_hustling I guess there were only a few dozen vendors.

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@JohnEDeaton1 My Congressman (OH-8). Been friends and in regular dialogue since he took the reins from Boehner.

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MichaelHilesHilesFiles@MichaelHiles·
28 Jan

So Quantum Conference (the rebranded Bitcoin Conference) in Miami only had 2k approx attendees.

Must be a rough market.

Or all the BS has finally boiled off.

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propelforwardDrew Hinkes@propelforward·
27 Jan

if I was lucky enough to be a full time professor, I'd be spending my time examining the issue of legal property rights in digital assets vs. their role as indicia of powers in technology system contexts. https://twitter.com/gonbegood/status/1619028703543201792

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12/ ISDA says that decentralised digital assets are different from traditional financial assets that are typically defined by a set of legal rights and obligations constituted by statute or contract. They don’t represent a bundle of rights…@NYcryptolawyer 👀

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25 Jan

Maybe now with the specter of AI looming, academia will be forced to return to teaching logic and systems thinking instead of fact memorization and regurgitation.

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