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The last human choice Jan 2025 <img width="500" height="281" width_o="500" height_o="281" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/444bd06e9e04f26318882efc5b0423c8f567d3ba8ff5d3f8fb652be6716a07ba/future.gif" data-mid="224997896" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/500/i/444bd06e9e04f26318882efc5b0423c8f567d3ba8ff5d3f8fb652be6716a07ba/future.gif" />This is a draft version. You can…
TEARS AND SAINT June 2024 Emil Cioran's "Tears and Saints," with its foreword by Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston, is a captivating exploration of the contradictions inherent in saintliness and the struggle for identity. Cioran's aphoristic style, reminiscent of Nietzsche, delves into the complexities of mysticism, Romanian politics, and spiritual life, revealing a profound fascination with the suffering…
HERE I STAND. I CAN DO NO OTHER. September 2020“What would you want your loved one to say about you at your funeral?” Before officially becoming a writer for the New Yorker, V was confronted by a friend with this question. The friend was leaving her job to become a life coach and was using V as a beta tester for her service. V was product managing at a tech company, whose goal is to democratize…
WHEN GODS ARE DEAD, WE CREATE NEW ONES November 2020When gods are dead, we create new ones. In 1882, Nietzhe declared “God is dead”. A couple of decades after, German theologian Bonhoeffer wrote in a letter in prison executed by the Nazis: “We are proceeding towards a time of no religion at all: man as they are now simply cannot be religious anymore.” <img…
EMBEDDED EDUCATIONNovember 2020Learning no longer lives on an individual platform. Rather, learning happens everywhere. We’re entering a new age of “Embedded Education”. What comes to mind when you think about EdTech companies? <img…
THE ILLUSIONS OF FREE-TO-PLAYFebruary 2021From freemium products to open-source projects to marketplaces to UGC platforms, free-to-play games are already everywhere. On December 8th, 2020, Adobe announced the end of Flash. And soon after Zynga announced the end of Farmville. This type of “end-of-an-era” moment evoked not only nostalgia but a heightened awareness of sunk cost — the sweat and soul…
A NEW FRONTIER OF BELONGINGFebruary 2022 The 36-year-old Calvino fell fervently in love with New York, so much so that he wrote in one of his letters: “Life in New York has started to become ferociously pleasant again. I must be daft, but I am more in love than ever with this horrendous city. New York is the only true love of my life.” The honeymoon phase that never escaped the Italian writer,…
LETTER TO THE INTERNETFebruary 2022 This letter is a call for action as part of my work at Station Labs. We built a product called GroupOS, the easiest way to start a token network. Web3 is full of contradictions. The most immediate is that despite so much opportunity, we’re in crisis. Many of us are waking every day with an increasing sense of urgency, despite being long on the future we’re…
TED: DESIGNING NEW POSSIBILITIES OF TRUST April 2023 I was fortunate to be invited to give a talk at TED 2023 in Toronton. However, due to some personal issues, the talk ended up getting cancelled. But now the transcript can be shared openly. <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160"…
IDEAS FRAMEWORK FOR VENTURE OUTCOMESDecember 2023 ︎︎︎ Interactive version as a customGPT. Note: this is an early prototype. Please use at your own discretion. <img width="640" height="480" width_o="640" height_o="480"…