Have you ever stepped into the desert night, no phone in your pocket, completely disconnected?
Though a million stars lie above you - you are engulfed in a vast darkness. The silence, simultaneously the most serene, yet the most terrifying.
A representation that all can be held in just one moment - neither this nor that.
Then the day. The sun rises above - a smoldering hot ball of fire hurling through space and time. A massively destructive force is also the creator of all life on this planet.
And each and everyone one of us, like the sun that brings us life, hold within us both the power to create and the power to destroy.
In each moment, through both processes - that of creation and that of destruction - we beget the other.
What I’m Reading
Ideas
I Tried an App that Let me Vent to Strangers for a Week, Rachel Lapidos
Markets
“Pigs Can Fly,” Convexity Maven, Harley Bassman
The Fraying of the US Global Currency Reserve System, Lyn Alden
Startups & Technology
Community Takes All: The Power of Social+, D'Arcy Coolican @ a16z
Crypto
Stability, Elasticity, and Reflexivity: A Deep Dive into Algorithmic Stablecoins, Benjamin Simon
Yearn Finance Quarterly Report
Crypto Theses for 2021, Ryan Selkis @ Messari
An Institutional Take on the 2020 / 2021 Digital Asset Market, Vision Hill
2020: Year in Review, Blockchain Capital
The Unintended(?) Consequences of the STABLE Act, Coin Center
Electric Capital Annual Crypto Developer Ecosystem Report
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