Dror Poleg's Newsletter Archive
Progress and Volatility
Why the next big thing will look like a scam
Impossibly Useless
Welcome to the future: Work is leisure; communities are corporations; and every person is both an investor and a financial product.
Ponzi and the City
Urban economics explains the evolution of Web3. And vice versa.
Stalin in the Metaverse
New ecosystems cannot create old monsters. But they can create new ones. Here's what we can do about it.
GitHub Shrugged
Open-Source developers provide free resources to giant corporations. Until they don't.
Unpacking the Web3 Sausage
Crypto is interesting for the freedom it enables, not for the freedom users currently care about. (a response to Moxie)
Snow Day
No newsletter today. We got a lot of snow last night, and I am spending the day shoveling and completing other missions. Looking for something good to read or listen to in the meantime? Check out: * Packy McCormick's The Laboratory of Complex Problems [https://www.notboring.co/p/
Don't show Me the Money
The blockchain will disappear. But first, it will uncover a whole new world.
The Unchained Web
In 2021, the internet figured out how to generate its own goods, enforce its own rules, and take what it needs from the outside world.
In Praise of Ponzis
A new economic model is emerging. Here's why it makes sense.
Crossing the Bank
A single currency is a perfect solution for a low-information world. We no longer live in one.
Crypto Quentin and Non-Fungible Taylor
NFTs will not replace copyright law. They will make it redundant.
GitHub for X
The 2020s will do to knowledge work what the 2010s did to unskilled labor.
Crypto and the Conservation of Centralization
You can't decentralize the web. At best, you can kill old winners and pick new ones. Here's how.
Friday!
🐣 We have a new baby boy, so no newsletter this week. 🔐 The first cohort of Hype-Free Crypto is sold out. To get on the list for January, reply to this email or drop your email here [https://www.hypefreecrypto.com]. 🚀 The 10th cohort of Future-Proof Real Estate kicks off next
Invisible Hierarchies
In the War for Talent, crypto is an unconventional weapon. We need to spend more time thinking about collateral damage.
Money and Beauty.
2008 turned "wealth" into a bad word, and undermined trust in financial and political institutions. The 2020s are offering an alternative approach.
Crypto Rorschach Test
Technology is nothing but an opportunity to change. The final outcome is (still) up to us.
Clones and Colonizers
The most precious resources of the 21st Century are human creativity and attention. The colonizers are coming to get yours. Here's how to save your soul.
Andreessen Pulls a Bezos
Cheap money and power-law profits are killing venture funds and birthing venture firms.
