Here we are in 2024 and people are still largely building underlying protocols/infrastructure vs. apps. There’s been a bigger movement towards building apps, but the space is still heavily infra leaning. While VC dynamics play a role, the crux lies in the anticipations of where value will accrue.

There’s been some clear shifts in how product is being built in web3 since the onset of the bear market.

Below is a list of the top books I read in 2022. The themes range from America’s political evolution, psychology, and tech history/futurism. My biggest recommendation in this list is How the Internet Happened, it’s a must read for anyone in tech.

It’s been a year since I started getting interested in rollups and scaling. I started writing + being more public about my thoughts to crystallize my own thinking and build connections in the rollups + infrastructure space.

Lately the endgame for web3 has been sovereign communities or network states, advocated widely between Balaji’s The Network State and investors in web3.

First things first, big shoutout to Lisa who collaborated on this post with me and to Christina from Aave, who shared her experience and lessons learned from launching the Lens Grants Program.

some of them are serious, some of them are silly. all of them are valuable. not ordered in any special way. learned = relearned = sharpened = blah

A brief introduction to sovereign rollups.