Why opinions are the internet's next big native market| davidphelps.substack.com
10 predictions for what will be an incredible year for technology and probably a terrible year for finance.| Three quarks
The greatest trick the bull market pulled was making us believe that entertainers abusing their power meant, somehow, that they were standing up against power itself.| Three quarks
Could the web3 era of mass hyperfinancialization, anti-regulation, and artificial scarcity actually be... Marxist?| Three quarks
In web3, platforms succeed by becoming protocols—which means people succeed by becoming platforms.| Three quarks
The one thing you couldn’t own online until now is your own identity—which means you haven’t been able to be yourself. Data protocols like Ceramic are about to change that.| Three quarks
why fractionalization and composability are the secret propellers of what's possible in web3| Three quarks
Why individual talent is inevitably overrated and overindexed—even in creative fields.| Three quarks
notes towards an e-eco-commons| davidphelps.substack.com
Carlota Perez helps us understand why bubbles are good for technology—but do they mean we're in a 20-year financial frenzy?| davidphelps.substack.com
A few years ago, we might have accepted that the internet was killing religion. But what if it's making new ones in its image?| Three quarks
What's happening in crypto is nothing new—it's a tale as old as 1848.| davidphelps.substack.com
Blockchains are defined by two qualities—they're sovereign, and they're permissionless. But are they mutually exclusive?| davidphelps.substack.com
Why NFTs are the best social tokens—and always have been.| davidphelps.substack.com
How Axie and Robinhood show the limits of democratizing—rather than collectivizing—finance.| davidphelps.substack.com