Bisola

“The call to adventure signifies that destiny has summoned the hero and transferred his spiritual center of gravity from within the pale of this society to a zone unknown.” - Joseph Campbell, The Hero’s Journey

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Areas of interest

• What I am working on
• web3 startup #2 (stealth)

• What I have done previously
• built: mycryptopedia (acquired), work: j.p. morgan, ernst & young (ey)

• What I am reading
• a piece of the action (joe nocera)
• intellectuals and society (thomas sowell)
• the machiavellians, defenders of freedom (james burnham)
• the end of the world is just the beginning (peter zeihan)
• socrates: a man for our times (paul johnson)

• What I am grappling with / topics on future pieces
• why crypto's unique culture and set of rituals enables its largest advantage that existing payment rails cannot emulate. And why reducing its accelerated adoption to a set of ux & ui improvements fundamentally misunderstands what its differentiated and critical drivers will be over the next 10 to 30 years
• is the adoption of crypto as a payment rail fundamentally a bottoms-up exercise; in contrast to top-down payment rails, e.g. ACH? If so, how may an acceleration in its adoption differ in a global context?
• how do we determine the point at which pervasive narratives in web3 move from genuine technological advocacy to manufactured consent?
• could the luddite riots have been prevented if its participants had been enfranchised with economic ownership of the technology: mechanisation of textile production, that sought to disrupt them? if so, can such a solution be applied to prevent the disenfranchisement of peoples today, as it relates to the rise of AI-enabled technologies?
• is the existing literature on early-stage startup competition outdated in the face of increasing competition and pursuit of monopolistic outcomes? can a more rigorous framework be formalised through relevant applications of game theory principles such as red teaming & payoff matrices?
• Bisola’s operating manual for extreme excellence

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