Blog
Earn your freedom as soon as you can
To forge your own luck, earn your freedom as soon as you can.
24/04/2024The fall of the West / The parents that failed their children
I will explore the most important civil liberties, and argue why in the West they are on their knees already, providing concrete examples. We are closer than we think to tyranny, but boomers don’t care.
10/04/2024Personal closure for Aragon
A few words on my personal farewell to Aragon.
02/11/2023The New World Order
The dollar will lose hegemony. And western democracies might ban crypto to try to delay the inevitable.
20/03/2023Too many passions
What to do when you have many hobbies, but limited time?
21/01/2023The infinite search for simplicity
We like stimuli, for an uneventful life is not worth living. However, when is it too much?
17/01/2023My wishes for the world in 2023
Some macro wishes for 2023!
01/01/2023Learnings in 2022
Some of my personal learnings in 2022.
31/12/2022The West is in ruins
Humankind is long-term default dead, and not default alive.
09/10/2022How to dethrone the gerontocracy
Our kids won’t live better than us if we don’t dethrone gerontocracy, but we can’t do it playing by their rules.
25/08/2022Extreme individualism and the erosion of values
How I almost got into a fight trying to help a grandpa reunite with his grandchildren.
21/08/2022Yet another sad day for freedom
What happened today with one of Tornado Cash developers getting arrested is a wake up call about the urgency of our mission.
12/08/2022Ashamed to be a human
We praise ourselves as being a superior species, yet fail to keep up with basic human morality in taking care of other animal species.
29/06/2022How boomers destroyed the West
Lately, I have been asking myself: why is art and culture worse today than a few decades ago?
05/04/2022Cancel culture and the Dark Ages
It takes two things for a society to thrive: freedom and truth. Cancel culture undermines both.
04/04/2022Learnings in 2021
My personal learnings from 2021.
08/01/2022Why rewilding the planet matters
We are destroying our beautiful homeland. In the process, thousands of species might disappear. Is rewilding the solution?
14/10/2021Rushing through life
There’s always a next meeting. There’s always a next call. There’s always a next goal to reach. You are never good enough.
09/10/2021The paradox of productive creativity
How being creative is the ultimate form of productivity.
04/10/2021The future that got stolen from us
Once upon a time, society saw technological progress as the way to free people from 9-to-5 jobs. Where did that dream go?
16/04/2021The Tweetdrop
A novel mechanism for viral token distribution leveraging Twitter.
20/01/2021We cannot get there fast enough
Society is crumbling down, and our products aren't able to meaningfully do anything about it. Let's keep building, because we cannot get there fast enough.
04/06/2020Timing markets
Even with the right people and the right vision, a product can still fail in getting product-market fit and becoming widespread. Why? Market timing.
30/05/2020The sorry state of crypto UX
If we think mainstream users are going to use any of this, we have drunk too much kool aid. We need to take a 180-degree turn in our priorities
24/05/2020Notion as a read later app
How to use Notion as a drop-in replacement for apps like Pocket or Instapaper
16/05/2020Telegram DAOs
Let's go where existing internet communities live and supercharge them with crypto. Let's take DAOs to Telegram!
30/04/2020Expert DAOs
Expert DAOs allow for the bottom-up formation of clusters of experts that can cryptographically attest truth
09/04/2020What 2020 may look like
A view into social and economic factors for 2020
12/03/2020Digital scarcity
How NFTs just clicked for me
10/03/2020Learnings in 2019
Compiling my 2019 learnings after moments of clarity
27/12/2019Value what you have
To value what you have, remember its worth every day
27/11/2019Three years of fighting for freedom
Three years ago Aragon was born. When we started it, it was clear that this would be a decade-long effort. It is tough, but it is the change the world needs
11/11/2019Leveraging travel
Leveraging travel so it helps you be more creative and productive
06/06/2019Expectations and happiness
Happiness = reality - expectations
03/06/2019Processing what you read
Tools and processes to make sure you take advantage of what you read
29/05/2019Being healthy and how it increases productivity
Diet, exercise and their compounding effects on productivity
10/05/2019Saving time by writing better
Save time to you and others by being brief and concise, while still communicating your point
12/11/2018Setting daily and weekly goals
Reducing the noise so you can focus on what matters
13/09/2018Saying no should be the rule, not the exception
Regaining control of your life and time by saying no
17/08/2018Debugging your day
How to find bottlenecks and bugs by tracking your time
14/08/2018A series on personal productivity
Tips and tricks on how to increase work output while being healthy and happy
13/08/2018The power of knowledge graphs
Reducing the gap between language and code
18/07/2018The uncomfortable truth of college
Why it made sense in the Industrial Era, and why it doesn’t today
12/03/2018Personal review of AGP proposals for the Jan 24th, 2019 vote
With the next AGP vote around the corner, I wrote an overview of the proposals that made it to the ballot
18/01/2018Not Earth, not Mars, no planet will be our home
Thriving as species could be more efficient by creating a new world rather than conquering the current one
13/08/2017Disintermediating marketplaces
Why I am advising district0x
17/07/2017Bitcoin Unlimited is a bug by itself
22/03/2017Idea for a decentralized, open source platform for deep machine learning advancement
25/01/2017Facebook serving fake news is not the problem we should look at
06/01/2017Human relationships have been owned
30/12/2016Solving the biggest bug in programming
18/12/2016Investing in crypto 101
22/08/2016The sorry state of the blockchain
03/05/2016Distractions and dystopia
31/07/2015Subconscious manipulation
06/08/2014