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Category of One Design
Building a Framework for the Category of One
Building an Idea Engine
Celebrity is the New Oil
How your POV drives product and market
Know Oneself vs Be Oneself
Reps-Enjoyment Matrix
The Personal Idea Maze
Your Category of One Creates Opportunity
Learning Roblox
How To Build an Obby With Your Student or Child
Platform Product Management
templates
frontmatter
How Does a Platform Product Manager Drive Impact?
How to Identify Platform Opportunities
How to Identify Requirements in a Scaling, Multi-Tenant Environment - Scalability
Managing Risks of the Platform
The Platform as Product "State of the Union" Exercise
The Platform Product Manager Series
What is the Product Mindset in a Platform Context?
Why Have a Platform Product Manager?
Why Platform Product Managers Impact Valuations
Product Management
A Time I Failed
A Time with Conflict
Can Culture be a Truth Seeking Machine?
Culture and Product Strategy is Truth Seeking and Truth Telling
How to Handle Difficult People
How to identify meaningful product metrics
Personal Product Strategy - Your Personality Unlocks Your Category of One
Personas Are the Heart of a Product Strategy
PM-Culture-Fit in a Composable World
Product Kick Off Template
Product Manager's User Research - you have to dig
Product Strategy - What is it?
Product Strategy Breakdowns - Why and How?
Rate Limiting Product
Tell me about a challenging product or platform
The Truth Flees Incongruence
Thinking through an AI-Driven Business Systems Product
Why Helium is a great project to learn the power of blockchain
Protocol Design
Demand Personas for Protocols
Demand Side Token Design - Sub Functions
Demand Side Token Design
Flywheels for Protocol Demand
Mapping Stakeholders to the Demand-Side Objective Function
Node Operators - A Return to Pre Industrial Farming for the Digital Age
Personas, Stakeholders and Adversarial Network Effects
Protocol Design Canvas
Protocols, Products, and Platforms
Slide - Demand Side Token Design
Supply-Side Driven Demand for Networks
The Protocol Guide to Enterprise-Led Growth
Working Backwards for Protocol Design
Quick Notes
Derivatives can still make it big
Flutterflow for Social Feed
More than Mindset
Wisdom in the Age of AI
Summaries of Learnings via AI
Kubernetes
templates
frontmatter
The Graph
Create a Subgraph on The Graph Protocol
Indexer Office Hours Summaries
Indexer Operational Dashboard
Professional Node Operators for The Graph
Set up a Graph Indexer
The Graph Indexer Experience
Visualizations and Apps for Graph Indexers
token engineering
Lesson 16 - Changes in Liquidity
Lesson 17 - Slippage and Impermanent Loss
Token Engineering Questions
Which AMM Pool is More profitable?
Alumni Relations as a Blockchain Service
Artist Styles for Midjourney
Baking Bread in San Francisco
Blockchain is the New University
Blockchain makes public transportation composable
Blockchain protocol design as public policy
Boredom is the Mother of Invention
Bubbles, Hype and Being Early
Building a Community of Node Operators
Building Extensible Compute Platforms
Building the Content Matrix
Certainty in Times of Inflection
Compaction is Compassion - Finding Signal in a Busy Noisy World
Comparing AI Tools for code generation - Part 1
Composable Education
Composable Workforces
Conformity-As-A-Service
Consistency versus Small Bets of Short Term Outcomes
Data Availability Sampling
Decentralization is a Populist Value But Will It Scale?
Decluttering and Organizing the Mind
Distribution in an Era of Abundant Content
Enabling a Gaming Creator Economy
Essay 1 - Newsletter Launchpad
Ethereum Trace API
Finding Your Bicycle for Your Mind
Firmographic Framework for Protocol Demand
Good Ideas Bad Ideas
Growth in the Web3 Ecosystem - L1, L2, Elsewhere?
How Narratives Create Value
How to Be Generative by Stealing Fire from AI
How to find your personal category of one
Ideation on a Category
Imagined Network Effects
Inflection Points
Information Density, Insight, and Alpha
Language Can Be Political - Objective Functions Less So
Lessons Learned from Coda CPO Lane Shakleton
Libraries, Homeschooling and the Future of Learning
Love, Fear and Punishment
Mind Body Quadrant based on Joe Dispenza and Andrew Huberman
Mobile Playlist for AI Summarization
Morning Pages
My Experiment in Response Essays
My README
Nobody Knows Anything and the Illusory Truth Effect
On Consistency
On Conviction
Parenting for Now and The Future
Payment Flows with Usage Based Pricing
Personal Objective Functions
Playing Infinite Games
Preference Curves Like Permissionlessness in Protocols
Principal Agent Theory at Work
Protocol Competition in an Open and Permissionless World
README cultures
Roblox as the Cloud Gaming Platform
Setting up a Loot Subgraph on The Graph
Setting up Oauth workflow on Firebase Functions
Signal to Noise
Sorting, Grouping and SQlite on Mobile when using YouTube Data API
Take Public Transportation
The 80-20 Life
The Blockchain Events I Should Schedule
The Future is Decentralized Verifiable Compute
The Graph - Time Aggregation Protocol - TAP
The Killer Narrative
The narrative of narratives
The Tragic Truth About Misaligned Incentives
The Trap of Double Mindedness
Thinking about Better VSLs
Tim's Public Essays
Togai Wallet for Top-Off Pre Pay Thresholds
Truth Telling, Sense Making and Languaging
Tying Everything to Human Needs
Valuable Earned Secrets
Verifiable Content vs Verifiable Privacy
Wandering as Competitive Advantage
web3 and business model innovation
What does Decentralization mean and why is it important?
What if Etherscan became a data platform?
What makes a protocol successful?
Why Roblox Beats Meta (Facebook) at the Metaverse
Your Personality Holds the Key
ZeroTier - Decentralized Networking
Protocols, Products, and Platforms