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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
Designing Your Real Quadrant
How your POV drives product and market
Know Oneself vs Be Oneself
Put in the Right Reps
Reps-Enjoyment Matrix
Stop Being an NPC
The Personal Idea Maze
The Urgency of Defining and Winning Your Category of One
Your Category of One Creates Opportunity
DeFi
Portfolio Strategy in DeFi
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?
AI Changes Learning, Teaching and Research
AI Roadmap for Your University
Alumni Relations as a Blockchain Service
Artist Styles for Midjourney
Assisting Upwards
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 a One-Person Business
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
Curve - Harvest vs Convex?
Data Availability Sampling
Decentralization is a Populist Value But Will It Scale?
Decluttering and Organizing the Mind
DeFi Karma
Developer Journey
Developer Pain Points
Developer Tools
Distribution and Liquidity Win in DeFi
Distribution in an Era of Abundant Content
Enabling a Gaming Creator Economy
Entering an Existing Regulated Market
Essay 1 - Newsletter Launchpad
Ethereum Trace API
Finding Signal in Chaos
Finding Your Bicycle for Your Mind
Firmographic Framework for Protocol Demand
Go down Rabbit Holes
Good Ideas Bad Ideas
Growth in the Web3 Ecosystem - L1, L2, Elsewhere?
Harvest Finance - My Portfolio
Harvest Finance
Headless Brands and Nouns
How does a product manager help design an API?
How important are network effects in web3?
How Narratives Create Value
How to Be Generative by Stealing Fire from AI
How to find your personal category of one
How would a Product Manager evaluate developer tool products?
Hungry Protocols vs Fat or Thin Protocols
Ideation on a Category
Imagined Network Effects
Index Coop
Inflection Points
Information Density, Insight, and Alpha
Journaling - How and Why
Language Can Be Political - Objective Functions Less So
Lessons Learned from Coda CPO Lane Shakleton
Libraries, Homeschooling and the Future of Learning
Lifetime Guarantees
Love, Fear and Punishment
Metrix Finance
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 Commitment
On Concision
On Consistency
On Conviction
Open AI is not Higher Ed's friend
Overnight Finance
Parenting for Now and The Future
Payment Flows with Usage Based Pricing
Personal Objective Functions
Playing Infinite Games
Portfolio Management in DeFi
Preference Curves Like Permissionlessness in Protocols
Principal Agent Theory at Work
Problems > Passion
Productivity - The Surprising Unsaturated Niches
Protocol Competition in an Open and Permissionless World
Protocol-Developer Fit
Public Transit Network Effects
README cultures
Roblox as the Cloud Gaming Platform
Rotki
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
Stablecoins - just better payment rails?
Strong Narratives Drive Inevitability
superUSD - Fueling Superhcain Public Goods Through USD-backed Stablecoins - PRD
System Design for Project Sophia
Take Public Transportation
Tell Me About Yourself
The 80-20 Life
The Balance of Conforming vs Constructing
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
The Ultimate Guide to Impermanent Loss in DeFi - What Every Investor Needs to Know
Thinking about Better VSLs
Thinking About the Internet and Business Models - Why Advertising Ruined the World and the Alternative
Throwing Darts
Tim's Public Essays
Togai Wallet for Top-Off Pre Pay Thresholds
Truth Telling Makes the Hive Mind Buzz
Truth Telling, Sense Making and Languaging
Tying Everything to Human Needs
Tyranny
USDC as the payment mechanism for AI
USDC as the supply chain glue
Using the Farcaster Protocol
Valuable Earned Secrets
Verifiable Content vs Verifiable Privacy
Wandering as Competitive Advantage
web3 and business model innovation
web3 at work
Web3 Product Management
web3 unlocks Proof of Personality
What do Protocols want?
What does Decentralization mean and why is it important?
What if Etherscan became a data platform?
What makes a protocol successful?
What makes good developer content?
What makes something strategic?
Who is the Customer?
Why Roblox Beats Meta (Facebook) at the Metaverse
Your Org is the Product - Integrations
Your Personality Edge
Your Personality Holds the Key
Your Protocol is The Product - Part 2
Your Protocol is The Product
ZeroTier - Decentralized Networking
Using the Farcaster Protocol