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
5 Feb 2022 · 1 min read
Startup stock options: a beginner's guide
Rationally valuing equity for startup employees
22 Jan 2022 · 10 min read
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
5 Jan 2022 · 4 min read
Foundering founder: the story of my startup year
How I spent a year trying to start a startup -- and failed.
7 Dec 2021 · 17 min read
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
30 Sep 2021 · 3 min read
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
12 Aug 2021 · 2 min read
Tesla's data engine: the road to full self-driving
I've driven a Tesla only once but looking at Karpathy's recent presentation [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSDTZQdo6H8] at the CVPR conference, soon
14 Jul 2021 · 2 min read
Becoming a definite optimist
Peter Thiel has [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18050143-zero-to-one] a 2x2 matrix: indefinite vs. definite, and optimist vs. pessimist. I want to be a definite optimist: imagine
12 Jul 2021 · 1 min read
If you can measure it, you can improve it
Early this year, I noticed I'd put on some lockdown-weight. I wasn't super worried but wanted to get back to my typical, healthier weight
8 Jul 2021 · 2 min read
Video: Invest in Estonia, 1993
This is a hidden gem: Estonia's pitch as a startup country, almost 30 years ago. As far as I know, it hasn't been on
1 Jul 2021 · 1 min read