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BOOKS I’M READING
Updated February 2020 Books I'm reading over the past couple months: Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New | Peter Drucker Civilization and Its Discontents | Freud Games People Play | Eric Berne New Lies for Old | Anatoliy Golitsyn Cable Cowboy | MarcRobichaux
ABOUT – WELCOME TO DANCOLAND About Alex: I'm 31, live in Toronto, and I work at Shopify. Previously I was at Social Capital. I also write a weekly newsletter. If you're here, you've probably seen it already! You can subscribe at danco.substack.com. Thanks for reading! NEWSLETTER – WELCOME TO DANCOLAND Newsletter. If you like the posts on alexdanco.com, you’ll love getting them in your inbox every Sunday, in my newsletter Two Truths and a Take. As a bonus, you’ll get reading links, reader comments, and other things I enjoy pointing out. Thousands of people read it every Sunday morning, and so can you: get it at danco.substack.com.ANTIFRAGILITY
Antifragility is an operating state of growing through continuous reaction. It’s like the opposite of predicting the future. You’re not making any forward-looking assumptions about anything, but you need disorder: you need a state change to have something to react to. DEBT: THE FIRST 5000 YEARS Debt: the First 5000 Years. I recently read Debt: the First 5000 Years by David Graeber, and it has stuck on my mind for a while. It’s one of those “ Everybody is wrong about X, here is what you’ve missed in plain sight ” -type books; as Chamath would put it, “often wrong, but never in doubt.”. It’s worth summarizing here, both WHAT’S BEHIND THE SHOPIFY EFFECT What’s behind the Shopify Effect. Each year, Shopify releases a report with Deloitte called our Economic Impact Report, in order to highlight and celebrate some bigger-picture impacts of Shopify merchants around the world. This past year was obviously a critical period for our merchants, who thrived during an absurdly challengingtime.
THE PIRATE PROBLEM
The Pirate Problem. February 2, 2021. Here is a riddle I think about quite often, and just might be of interest to the Gamespop crowd going forward: Five pirates (who used to be hedge fund managers before they gave up their life of sin and took up an honest profession) attack and board a ship. While plundering the boat, they uncover a chest WHY THE CANADIAN TECH SCENE DOESN’T WORK Toronto is not the next great startup scene. Neither is Waterloo, or Vancouver, or anywhere in Canada. I’m sorry that I have to write this. I really am. I want it to work. But the growing chorus of aspirational claims that “Toronto’s tech ecosystem is growing faster than anywhere else in North America” or “The Toronto-Waterloo corridor is 'the THE MICHAEL SCOTT THEORY OF SOCIAL CLASS I’m happy to finally share a thesis I’ve been chewing on for a little while. I call it The Michael Scott Theory of Social Class, which states: The higher you ascend the ladder of the Educated Gentry class, the more you become Michael Scott. We should start WELCOME TO DANCOLAND Power, Proximity, and Standup Comedy. The most pure expression of power you’ll ever see is standup comedy. I don’t mean the greatest magnitude of power, mind you. Most standup comedians are broke, and most comedy acts. Read more.BOOKS I’M READING
Updated February 2020 Books I'm reading over the past couple months: Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New | Peter Drucker Civilization and Its Discontents | Freud Games People Play | Eric Berne New Lies for Old | Anatoliy Golitsyn Cable Cowboy | MarcRobichaux
ABOUT – WELCOME TO DANCOLAND About Alex: I'm 31, live in Toronto, and I work at Shopify. Previously I was at Social Capital. I also write a weekly newsletter. If you're here, you've probably seen it already! You can subscribe at danco.substack.com. Thanks for reading! NEWSLETTER – WELCOME TO DANCOLAND Newsletter. If you like the posts on alexdanco.com, you’ll love getting them in your inbox every Sunday, in my newsletter Two Truths and a Take. As a bonus, you’ll get reading links, reader comments, and other things I enjoy pointing out. Thousands of people read it every Sunday morning, and so can you: get it at danco.substack.com.ANTIFRAGILITY
Antifragility is an operating state of growing through continuous reaction. It’s like the opposite of predicting the future. You’re not making any forward-looking assumptions about anything, but you need disorder: you need a state change to have something to react to. DEBT: THE FIRST 5000 YEARS Debt: the First 5000 Years. I recently read Debt: the First 5000 Years by David Graeber, and it has stuck on my mind for a while. It’s one of those “ Everybody is wrong about X, here is what you’ve missed in plain sight ” -type books; as Chamath would put it, “often wrong, but never in doubt.”. It’s worth summarizing here, both WHAT’S BEHIND THE SHOPIFY EFFECT What’s behind the Shopify Effect. Each year, Shopify releases a report with Deloitte called our Economic Impact Report, in order to highlight and celebrate some bigger-picture impacts of Shopify merchants around the world. This past year was obviously a critical period for our merchants, who thrived during an absurdly challengingtime.
THE PIRATE PROBLEM
The Pirate Problem. February 2, 2021. Here is a riddle I think about quite often, and just might be of interest to the Gamespop crowd going forward: Five pirates (who used to be hedge fund managers before they gave up their life of sin and took up an honest profession) attack and board a ship. While plundering the boat, they uncover a chest WHY THE CANADIAN TECH SCENE DOESN’T WORK Toronto is not the next great startup scene. Neither is Waterloo, or Vancouver, or anywhere in Canada. I’m sorry that I have to write this. I really am. I want it to work. But the growing chorus of aspirational claims that “Toronto’s tech ecosystem is growing faster than anywhere else in North America” or “The Toronto-Waterloo corridor is 'the THE MICHAEL SCOTT THEORY OF SOCIAL CLASS I’m happy to finally share a thesis I’ve been chewing on for a little while. I call it The Michael Scott Theory of Social Class, which states: The higher you ascend the ladder of the Educated Gentry class, the more you become Michael Scott. We should startBOOKS I’M READING
Updated February 2020 Books I'm reading over the past couple months: Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New | Peter Drucker Civilization and Its Discontents | Freud Games People Play | Eric Berne New Lies for Old | Anatoliy Golitsyn Cable Cowboy | MarcRobichaux
NEWSLETTER – WELCOME TO DANCOLAND Newsletter. If you like the posts on alexdanco.com, you’ll love getting them in your inbox every Sunday, in my newsletter Two Truths and a Take. As a bonus, you’ll get reading links, reader comments, and other things I enjoy pointing out. Thousands of people read it every Sunday morning, and so can you: get it at danco.substack.com.WORLD BUILDING
The more complex or valuable is whatever you’re trying to sell, the more important it is for you to build a world around that idea, where other people can walk in, explore, and hang out – without you having to be there with them the whole time. You need to build a world so rich and captivating that others will want to spend time in it, even BUILDING THE WORLD OF ALEX DANCO’S NEWSLETTER The first one is, the core of the newsletter obviously needs to stick around. So that’s all the themes we talk about on a regular basis, like tech, bubbles, mimesis, scenes, and all of these interesting topics we’ve been exploring. The second thing that’s now obvious,though, is
DEBT IS COMING
Debt is Coming. February 7, 2020. Ten years from now, what seismic change will we reflect back on and think, “well that was pretty obvious, in retrospect”? Debt is going to finally come to the tech industry. We can hate it, we can criticize it, we can raise the alarm about how dangerous debt is to the VC model we’ve honed toperfection
MAKING IS SHOW BUSINESS NOW Making is Show Business now. October 8, 2020. Nadia Eghbal’s new book, Working In Public: the Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software, may not have been on your short list of books to read this year. It’s admittedly a nerdy topic: it’s about open source projects, roles and responsibilities; the rise of GitHub as adeveloper
POWER, PROXIMITY, AND STANDUP COMEDY The most pure expression of power you’ll ever see is standup comedy. I don’t mean the greatest magnitude of power, mind you. Most standup comedians are broke, and most comedy acts fail to gain real momentum in popular culture or create any snowballing path to fame and influence. Only a few select people work their waySPAC MAN BEGINS
SPAC Man Begins. Three years ago, Chamath sat us all down at a Social Capital all hands meeting and told us about this great new thing we were gonna do. It was called a SPAC. A SPAC (“ Special Purpose Acquisition Company ”, or “blank check company”), he told us, was a new way we were going to help take big tech companies public. PIPE IT! PLATFORMS, FUNDING, AND THE FUTURE Pipe It! Platforms, Funding, and the Future. What a year it’s been. Last February, before joining Shopify, I wrote a post called Debt is Coming that provoked a great discussion around how fixed income is finally going to challenge the all-equity fundraising model in software startups. (It remains, by a long shot, the most widely readpiece I
GOOGLE CHROME, THE PERFECT ANTITRUST VILLAIN? Note: I wrote this post on Thursday, and then Friday night, news dropped that the US DOJ is preparing an antitrust investigation against Google. Wow-ee. So, this post may either look better and/or go out of date in real time over the next coming days! Happy reading. Which of these tech products is most deserving WELCOME TO DANCOLAND Power, Proximity, and Standup Comedy. The most pure expression of power you’ll ever see is standup comedy. I don’t mean the greatest magnitude of power, mind you. Most standup comedians are broke, and most comedy acts. Read more.BOOKS I’M READING
Updated February 2020 Books I'm reading over the past couple months: Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New | Peter Drucker Civilization and Its Discontents | Freud Games People Play | Eric Berne New Lies for Old | Anatoliy Golitsyn Cable Cowboy | MarcRobichaux
ABOUT – WELCOME TO DANCOLAND About Alex: I'm 31, live in Toronto, and I work at Shopify. Previously I was at Social Capital. I also write a weekly newsletter. If you're here, you've probably seen it already! You can subscribe at danco.substack.com. Thanks for reading! NEWSLETTER – WELCOME TO DANCOLAND Newsletter. If you like the posts on alexdanco.com, you’ll love getting them in your inbox every Sunday, in my newsletter Two Truths and a Take. As a bonus, you’ll get reading links, reader comments, and other things I enjoy pointing out. Thousands of people read it every Sunday morning, and so can you: get it at danco.substack.com.ANTIFRAGILITY
Antifragility is an operating state of growing through continuous reaction. It’s like the opposite of predicting the future. You’re not making any forward-looking assumptions about anything, but you need disorder: you need a state change to have something to react to.THE PIRATE PROBLEM
The Pirate Problem. February 2, 2021. Here is a riddle I think about quite often, and just might be of interest to the Gamespop crowd going forward: Five pirates (who used to be hedge fund managers before they gave up their life of sin and took up an honest profession) attack and board a ship. While plundering the boat, they uncover a chest WHY THE CANADIAN TECH SCENE DOESN’T WORK Toronto is not the next great startup scene. Neither is Waterloo, or Vancouver, or anywhere in Canada. I’m sorry that I have to write this. I really am. I want it to work. But the growing chorus of aspirational claims that “Toronto’s tech ecosystem is growing faster than anywhere else in North America” or “The Toronto-Waterloo corridor is 'the SECRETS ABOUT PEOPLE: A SHORT AND DANGEROUS INTRODUCTION The more we understand about the world around us, the less it seems we understand about people and the way they are. This post is an introduction to one man, named René Girard, who bucked this trend: his perception of the nature of behaviour is like a laser that goes right to the core of GOOGLE CHROME, THE PERFECT ANTITRUST VILLAIN? Note: I wrote this post on Thursday, and then Friday night, news dropped that the US DOJ is preparing an antitrust investigation against Google. Wow-ee. So, this post may either look better and/or go out of date in real time over the next coming days! Happy reading. Which of these tech products is most deservingTHE BEST NEWS
Today's post isn't a normal post. It's a special one, since I only get to do it once. As of Saturday, November 28th, I am now married to my best friend and new wife, Tessa Wallace! There are far too many people to thank properly that can fit here, but six people deserve specialrecognition.
WELCOME TO DANCOLAND Power, Proximity, and Standup Comedy. The most pure expression of power you’ll ever see is standup comedy. I don’t mean the greatest magnitude of power, mind you. Most standup comedians are broke, and most comedy acts. Read more.BOOKS I’M READING
Updated February 2020 Books I'm reading over the past couple months: Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New | Peter Drucker Civilization and Its Discontents | Freud Games People Play | Eric Berne New Lies for Old | Anatoliy Golitsyn Cable Cowboy | MarcRobichaux
ABOUT – WELCOME TO DANCOLAND About Alex: I'm 31, live in Toronto, and I work at Shopify. Previously I was at Social Capital. I also write a weekly newsletter. If you're here, you've probably seen it already! You can subscribe at danco.substack.com. Thanks for reading! NEWSLETTER – WELCOME TO DANCOLAND Newsletter. If you like the posts on alexdanco.com, you’ll love getting them in your inbox every Sunday, in my newsletter Two Truths and a Take. As a bonus, you’ll get reading links, reader comments, and other things I enjoy pointing out. Thousands of people read it every Sunday morning, and so can you: get it at danco.substack.com.ANTIFRAGILITY
Antifragility is an operating state of growing through continuous reaction. It’s like the opposite of predicting the future. You’re not making any forward-looking assumptions about anything, but you need disorder: you need a state change to have something to react to.THE PIRATE PROBLEM
The Pirate Problem. February 2, 2021. Here is a riddle I think about quite often, and just might be of interest to the Gamespop crowd going forward: Five pirates (who used to be hedge fund managers before they gave up their life of sin and took up an honest profession) attack and board a ship. While plundering the boat, they uncover a chest WHY THE CANADIAN TECH SCENE DOESN’T WORK Toronto is not the next great startup scene. Neither is Waterloo, or Vancouver, or anywhere in Canada. I’m sorry that I have to write this. I really am. I want it to work. But the growing chorus of aspirational claims that “Toronto’s tech ecosystem is growing faster than anywhere else in North America” or “The Toronto-Waterloo corridor is 'the SECRETS ABOUT PEOPLE: A SHORT AND DANGEROUS INTRODUCTION The more we understand about the world around us, the less it seems we understand about people and the way they are. This post is an introduction to one man, named René Girard, who bucked this trend: his perception of the nature of behaviour is like a laser that goes right to the core of GOOGLE CHROME, THE PERFECT ANTITRUST VILLAIN? Note: I wrote this post on Thursday, and then Friday night, news dropped that the US DOJ is preparing an antitrust investigation against Google. Wow-ee. So, this post may either look better and/or go out of date in real time over the next coming days! Happy reading. Which of these tech products is most deservingTHE BEST NEWS
Today's post isn't a normal post. It's a special one, since I only get to do it once. As of Saturday, November 28th, I am now married to my best friend and new wife, Tessa Wallace! There are far too many people to thank properly that can fit here, but six people deserve specialrecognition.
BOOKS I’M READING
Updated February 2020 Books I'm reading over the past couple months: Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New | Peter Drucker Civilization and Its Discontents | Freud Games People Play | Eric Berne New Lies for Old | Anatoliy Golitsyn Cable Cowboy | MarcRobichaux
NEWSLETTER – WELCOME TO DANCOLAND If you like the posts on alexdanco.com, you'll love getting them in your inbox every Sunday, in my newsletter Two Truths and a Take. As a bonus, you'll get reading links, reader comments, and other things I enjoy pointing out. Thousands of people read it every Sunday morning, and so can you: get it at LONGFORM – WELCOME TO DANCOLAND Longform. Most of the time, my weekly writing that you can find here (or in your inbox every Sunday) is newsletter-length, but from time to time I also write longer-form essays that are split over multiple newsletter issues. I’ll post them here as I complete them. Ten predictions for the 2020s | December 26, 2019.WORLD BUILDING
The more complex or valuable is whatever you’re trying to sell, the more important it is for you to build a world around that idea, where other people can walk in, explore, and hang out – without you having to be there with them the whole time. You need to build a world so rich and captivating that others will want to spend time in it, even SHOPIFY – WELCOME TO DANCOLAND Shopify Money is hiring! Come work with me, and let's celebrate great craft together. You can fill out this quick Google Form, and if it looks like there's a good fit, I'll make sure it finds its way to the right people. Shopify is Digital By Default: on Money we're hiring anywhere across the AmericasDEBT IS COMING
Debt is Coming. February 7, 2020. Ten years from now, what seismic change will we reflect back on and think, “well that was pretty obvious, in retrospect”? Debt is going to finally come to the tech industry. We can hate it, we can criticize it, we can raise the alarm about how dangerous debt is to the VC model we’ve honed toperfection
DEBT: THE FIRST 5000 YEARS Debt: the First 5000 Years. I recently read Debt: the First 5000 Years by David Graeber, and it has stuck on my mind for a while. It’s one of those “ Everybody is wrong about X, here is what you’ve missed in plain sight ” -type books; as Chamath would put it, “often wrong, but never in doubt.”. It’s worth summarizing here, bothSPAC MAN BEGINS
SPAC Man Begins. Three years ago, Chamath sat us all down at a Social Capital all hands meeting and told us about this great new thing we were gonna do. It was called a SPAC. A SPAC (“ Special Purpose Acquisition Company ”, or “blank check company”), he told us, was a new way we were going to help take big tech companies public.BLACK SWAN EVENTS
Black Swan Events have three principal characteristics: One: They are unpredictable. This is the easiest one to grok, although the hardest to say anything actionable about. The term “Black Swan Event”, when used most lazily and colloquially, is simply meant to say “something we didn’t see coming.”. Two: Their magnitude. PROGRESS, POSTMODERNISM AND THE TECH BACKLASH Progress, Postmodernism and the Tech Backlash. Here are two aspects of the anti-tech backlash that I believe are both true, and are actually reciprocally related to each other: Critics in media, politics, and even in tech itself, who spend all day in the echo chamber, usually overestimate how many people out in the real world actually believe WELCOME TO DANCOLAND Power, Proximity, and Standup Comedy. The most pure expression of power you’ll ever see is standup comedy. I don’t mean the greatest magnitude of power, mind you. Most standup comedians are broke, and most comedy acts. Read more.BOOKS I’M READING
Updated February 2020 Books I'm reading over the past couple months: Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New | Peter Drucker Civilization and Its Discontents | Freud Games People Play | Eric Berne New Lies for Old | Anatoliy Golitsyn Cable Cowboy | MarcRobichaux
ABOUT – WELCOME TO DANCOLAND About Alex: I'm 31, live in Toronto, and I work at Shopify. Previously I was at Social Capital. I also write a weekly newsletter. If you're here, you've probably seen it already! You can subscribe at danco.substack.com. Thanks for reading! LONGFORM – WELCOME TO DANCOLAND Longform. Most of the time, my weekly writing that you can find here (or in your inbox every Sunday) is newsletter-length, but from time to time I also write longer-form essays that are split over multiple newsletter issues. I’ll post them here as I complete them. Ten predictions for the 2020s | December 26, 2019. NEWSLETTER – WELCOME TO DANCOLAND Newsletter. If you like the posts on alexdanco.com, you’ll love getting them in your inbox every Sunday, in my newsletter Two Truths and a Take. As a bonus, you’ll get reading links, reader comments, and other things I enjoy pointing out. Thousands of people read it every Sunday morning, and so can you: get it at danco.substack.com.ANTIFRAGILITY
Antifragility is an operating state of growing through continuous reaction. It’s like the opposite of predicting the future. You’re not making any forward-looking assumptions about anything, but you need disorder: you need a state change to have something to react to.WORLD BUILDING
The more complex or valuable is whatever you’re trying to sell, the more important it is for you to build a world around that idea, where other people can walk in, explore, and hang out – without you having to be there with them the whole time. You need to build a world so rich and captivating that others will want to spend time in it, evenDEBT IS COMING
Debt is Coming. February 7, 2020. Ten years from now, what seismic change will we reflect back on and think, “well that was pretty obvious, in retrospect”? Debt is going to finally come to the tech industry. We can hate it, we can criticize it, we can raise the alarm about how dangerous debt is to the VC model we’ve honed toperfection
SHOPIFY – WELCOME TO DANCOLAND Shopify Money is hiring! Come work with me, and let's celebrate great craft together. You can fill out this quick Google Form, and if it looks like there's a good fit, I'll make sure it finds its way to the right people. Shopify is Digital By Default: on Money we're hiring anywhere across the Americas WHY THE CANADIAN TECH SCENE DOESN’T WORK Toronto is not the next great startup scene. Neither is Waterloo, or Vancouver, or anywhere in Canada. I’m sorry that I have to write this. I really am. I want it to work. But the growing chorus of aspirational claims that “Toronto’s tech ecosystem is growing faster than anywhere else in North America” or “The Toronto-Waterloo corridor is 'the WELCOME TO DANCOLAND Power, Proximity, and Standup Comedy. The most pure expression of power you’ll ever see is standup comedy. I don’t mean the greatest magnitude of power, mind you. Most standup comedians are broke, and most comedy acts. Read more.BOOKS I’M READING
Updated February 2020 Books I'm reading over the past couple months: Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New | Peter Drucker Civilization and Its Discontents | Freud Games People Play | Eric Berne New Lies for Old | Anatoliy Golitsyn Cable Cowboy | MarcRobichaux
ABOUT – WELCOME TO DANCOLAND About Alex: I'm 31, live in Toronto, and I work at Shopify. Previously I was at Social Capital. I also write a weekly newsletter. If you're here, you've probably seen it already! You can subscribe at danco.substack.com. Thanks for reading! LONGFORM – WELCOME TO DANCOLAND Longform. Most of the time, my weekly writing that you can find here (or in your inbox every Sunday) is newsletter-length, but from time to time I also write longer-form essays that are split over multiple newsletter issues. I’ll post them here as I complete them. Ten predictions for the 2020s | December 26, 2019. NEWSLETTER – WELCOME TO DANCOLAND Newsletter. If you like the posts on alexdanco.com, you’ll love getting them in your inbox every Sunday, in my newsletter Two Truths and a Take. As a bonus, you’ll get reading links, reader comments, and other things I enjoy pointing out. Thousands of people read it every Sunday morning, and so can you: get it at danco.substack.com.ANTIFRAGILITY
Antifragility is an operating state of growing through continuous reaction. It’s like the opposite of predicting the future. You’re not making any forward-looking assumptions about anything, but you need disorder: you need a state change to have something to react to.WORLD BUILDING
The more complex or valuable is whatever you’re trying to sell, the more important it is for you to build a world around that idea, where other people can walk in, explore, and hang out – without you having to be there with them the whole time. You need to build a world so rich and captivating that others will want to spend time in it, evenDEBT IS COMING
Debt is Coming. February 7, 2020. Ten years from now, what seismic change will we reflect back on and think, “well that was pretty obvious, in retrospect”? Debt is going to finally come to the tech industry. We can hate it, we can criticize it, we can raise the alarm about how dangerous debt is to the VC model we’ve honed toperfection
SHOPIFY – WELCOME TO DANCOLAND Shopify Money is hiring! Come work with me, and let's celebrate great craft together. You can fill out this quick Google Form, and if it looks like there's a good fit, I'll make sure it finds its way to the right people. Shopify is Digital By Default: on Money we're hiring anywhere across the Americas WHY THE CANADIAN TECH SCENE DOESN’T WORK Toronto is not the next great startup scene. Neither is Waterloo, or Vancouver, or anywhere in Canada. I’m sorry that I have to write this. I really am. I want it to work. But the growing chorus of aspirational claims that “Toronto’s tech ecosystem is growing faster than anywhere else in North America” or “The Toronto-Waterloo corridor is 'the LONGFORM – WELCOME TO DANCOLAND Longform. Most of the time, my weekly writing that you can find here (or in your inbox every Sunday) is newsletter-length, but from time to time I also write longer-form essays that are split over multiple newsletter issues. I’ll post them here as I complete them. Ten predictions for the 2020s | December 26, 2019.WORLD BUILDING
The more complex or valuable is whatever you’re trying to sell, the more important it is for you to build a world around that idea, where other people can walk in, explore, and hang out – without you having to be there with them the whole time. You need to build a world so rich and captivating that others will want to spend time in it, even SHOPIFY – WELCOME TO DANCOLAND Shopify Money is hiring! Come work with me, and let's celebrate great craft together. You can fill out this quick Google Form, and if it looks like there's a good fit, I'll make sure it finds its way to the right people. Shopify is Digital By Default: on Money we're hiring anywhere across the AmericasCRAFT IS CULTURE
Craft is Culture. June 26, 2020. I’ve now been at Shopify for two months. One month in, the leadership team announced that we’re moving to “Digital by Default”: permanently. The era of office centricity is over; it’s time to figure out what comes next. I’ve DEBT: THE FIRST 5000 YEARS Debt: the First 5000 Years. I recently read Debt: the First 5000 Years by David Graeber, and it has stuck on my mind for a while. It’s one of those “ Everybody is wrong about X, here is what you’ve missed in plain sight ” -type books; as Chamath would put it, “often wrong, but never in doubt.”. It’s worth summarizing here, bothSPAC MAN BEGINS
SPAC Man Begins. Three years ago, Chamath sat us all down at a Social Capital all hands meeting and told us about this great new thing we were gonna do. It was called a SPAC. A SPAC (“ Special Purpose Acquisition Company ”, or “blank check company”), he told us, was a new way we were going to help take big tech companies public.BLACK SWAN EVENTS
Black Swan Events have three principal characteristics: One: They are unpredictable. This is the easiest one to grok, although the hardest to say anything actionable about. The term “Black Swan Event”, when used most lazily and colloquially, is simply meant to say “something we didn’t see coming.”. Two: Their magnitude. IT’S GOING TO GET WORSE It’s going to get worse. The other day I went for a drive around town, just to clear my head a bit and check out the empty city. For the most part, it looked empty, but ordinary; like being out at dawn before the city wakes up. But there was a notable exception: Starbucks. The lines for Starbucks drive-thru (and I saw threedifferent
THE MICHAEL SCOTT THEORY OF SOCIAL CLASS So, twelve years ago, Venkatesh Rao wrote a lengthy and fascinating series of essays called “The Gervais Principle”, which walked through the NBC show The Office, an American adaptation to Ricky Gervais’ original British series. The essays go after a particular aspect of organizational behaviour, around how organizations that survive tend to self-stratify into three predictable layers.THE BEST NEWS
Today's post isn't a normal post. It's a special one, since I only get to do it once. As of Saturday, November 28th, I am now married to my best friend and new wife, Tessa Wallace! There are far too many people to thank properly that can fit here, but six people deserve specialrecognition.
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Hey everyone, I’m happy to share this week another podcast chat with Jim O’Shaughnessy on his show, Infinite Loops. (Feels like this might be a recurring thing.) Alex Danco: Makes… Read more How Scenes Work, with Jim O’Shaughnessy → PIPE IT! PLATFORMS, FUNDING, AND THE FUTURE3 months ago
What a year it’s been. Last February, before joining Shopify, I wrote a post called Debt is Coming that provoked a great discussion around how fixed income is finally going… Read more Pipe It! Platforms, Funding, and the Future →POSTS NAVIGATION
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