20.1% yearly inflation in Estonia
What did Estonians start paying more for in April 2022?
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HBS vs BAYC
At a New Year's Eve house party a few years ago, I met someone who had graduated from Harvard Business School. Among other topics, I brought up something I couldn't figure out: why would someone pay $200,000 [https://www.hbs.edu/mba/Pages/cost-of-attendance-class-of-2023.aspx] for something you could just
Thoughts from my first web3 conference
In the spirit of documenting my thought process instead of already-formed thoughts, here are my impressions from the recent DevConnect – a major week-long gathering of the web3 developer community in Amsterdam. * Many web3 companies are default-global. Most don't mention where they are based, because it doesn't matter. The community is organized more around
Workshop: building NFT apps with NFTPort
This is a short workshop I gave at the Road to Web3 online hackathon: a brief demo of NFTPort [https://nftport.xyz/]'s APIs to people who have a rough understanding of what NFT [https://www.taivo.ai/notes/__nft/]s are. If you are not one of those people, the original NFT standard spec (ERC-721) [https://eips.
Startup stock options: a beginner's guide
Rationally valuing equity for startup employees
Web3: what I'm doing next
As I wrote before, I ended my startup journey [https://www.taivo.ai/startup-year] in November and started looking for a job. A lot has happened between then and now. I've spoken to tons of people, looked at a broad range of options, and decided to join one early-stage company. It felt weird to announce [https:
Foundering founder: the story of my startup year
How I spent a year trying to start a startup -- and failed.
Product before problem
You might imagine all great startups started from a clear mission. Sometimes they were, but usually, that story is woven in hindsight to cover up the gnarly pivots of the early days. In PR-optimised founding stories, the narrative usually goes like this. Our visionary founders found an apparent $PROBLEM in the world; through hard work and over many different
Diffuse mode: thinking by relaxing
I recently started drinking coffee again. Caffeine has always had the effect of narrowing my focus and reducing mind-wandering. The downside is, caffeine makes me less likely to get into diffuse mode, the other main mode of thinking. Focused mode means taking a direct, head-on approach to work: writing an email on your laptop, reading an article, or
Tesla's data engine: the road to full self-driving
I've driven a Tesla only once but looking at Karpathy's recent presentation at the CVPR conference, soon no human will. I think Tesla's unique data engine is what will get them there. In their self-driving stack, Tesla has always been betting on cameras and radar. This contrasts with Waymo's bet on