I just graduated from my 4 week Ancient Philosophy course with the University of Pennsylvania (@Penn). I know... my hobbies are very impractical, but it took a lot of hours after the kids were asleep. Thank you Plato and predecessors for all the "fun" over the past month!

AI is chronically under-leveraged in Crypto atm I give it <24 months before every protocol has an AI feature embedded in-app I think the reason why adoption is slow along existing apps is because there needs to be a philosophy shift Ppl haven’t adjusted to the new norm yet

In a lively conversation at the Vogue Café in SoHo, designer and founder Tory Burch sat down with Nicole Phelps for a live recording of “The Run-Through,” touching on everything from Met Gala prep to the personal philosophy that built her empire.

Loved this article from Wala Kasmi at ClassX. She argues that startup investment decisions are driven more from a psychological lens rather than a logical one. Sometimes founders with no revenue raise millions while some with traction struggle. I appreciate her sharing some of my thoughts around investment philosophy. Worth a read if you have time.

Sustainable growth is built on scalable foundations. We’re focused on building systems that can compound in utility, liquidity, and adoption over time, while evolving responsibly within emerging market frameworks. That philosophy continues to shape how Bounce scales.

Shards of the Black Field: Human, Choice and Systems This is a black pill for business and personal strategy. Amazon: #BlackFieldPublishing# #LexxChe# #SystemsThinking# #Strategy# #Philosophy# #DigitalSystems# #Sociology# #PowerStructures# #CriticalThinking# #BusinessStrategy#

It's no secret the world's full of jealous losers who lose their minds over shit they can't have. Anyone even slightly successful deals with it. This is actually deep philosophy. Takes real wisdom to realize all your achievements & credentials are buried in the dirt & scandals thrown at you... and all that dirt is literally proof of those achievements. If no one's ever spread rumors about you, only one reason: you're a nobody. You don't matter. I didn't fully get it before, but it clicked later. People make up shit & seethe with jealousy cuz of what you have that they don't, especially the stuff you were born with that they'll never touch in their whole life. The bigger & crazier your success, the crazier the scandals. It's not even a big deal. Living right in the eye of the storm, constantly at the center of controversy for a whole lifetime, that's probably my dream.

every revolutionary movement follows the same arc: 1. idealists build something because the old system failed them 2. it works. attracts people who want the benefits but not the philosophy 3. money enters 4. mainstream users outnumber originals 100:1 5. ABSORPTION, the product evolves to serve the majority, loses “soul” 6. the originals feel betrayed, go underground or leave punk rock did this, open source did this, the internet did this, crypto is doing it right now. But the absorption is never total. encryption was classified as a literal weapon, cypherpunks fought a legal war just to export PGP, now E2E encryption is default on whatsapp alone for 3 billion people. Linux never won the desktop but it runs every server on earth. the revolution didn’t “die”, it just gets absorbed so completely nobody remembers it was one. Crypto has two paths from here. Path A: Absorption. 99% buy bitcoin through ETFs. AI agents settle payments on-chain because they can’t open bank accounts. crypto becomes invisible plumbing. nobody calls it “Crypto”, nobody cares about the philosophy, but permissionless rails run underneath everything. Path B: cascades of war, sanctions, currency collapse, institutional failure becomes a lived reality for millions at once. sovereignty stops being philosophy and becomes survival. the cypherpunk ethos stops being a subculture and becomes the default because the alternative already failed. the difference between path A and path B is just one crisis nobody saw coming. most people are only pricing in path A.

Addressing climate change, saving our environment, and protecting biodiversity are daunting challenges, but #NatGeo33# changemaker Shailene Woodley is up to the task. She tells us her philosophy on meaningful change in a world with so much to be done: