Hi Friends,

What a week. It's been a crazy NFT NYC. People are passionate. It is still so early. Who knows what's next, but it's going to be exciting. 

Yes, you are getting this on Friday evening. I haven't written long form in a while. I have to clear my schedule and start with an empty mind to write and think properly. Look forward to new insights. :)

Today's Contents:

• Weekly Song: Here's To Never Growing Up
• Good Reads

Weekly Song: Here's To Never Growing Up

This song fits the week. 

Amid NFT NYC, I spent some time hanging out with Jamey Gannon, co-founder of Continuum, who was in town. She's a 19-year-old, massively-talented, creative creator. It was great. And also reminded me that I haven't been carded in a long, long time. 

I felt my age - and I didn't even drink. Gone are the days where you could hop from a place to place without consequence. It's also nice to have life experiences and relationships that you can leverage to add value for others. 

By the end of the week, I had it figured out: Post up at a nice restaurant / lounge with someone interesting, like Matt from Oasis. Meet some Bored Apes and invite people to come hang out with you. Keep in on your own, old terms.

So, here's to the sentiment of Never Growing Up even if it's impossible. 



Here's To Never Growing Up by Avril Lavigne

Singing radiohead at the top of our lungs
With the boom box blaring as we're falling in love
I got a bottle of whatever, but it's gettin' us drunk
Singing here's to never growing up

Call up all our friends, go hard this weekend
For no damn reason, I don't think we'll ever change
Meet you at the spot, half past ten o'clock
We don't ever stop, and we're never gonna change

Say, won't you stay forever, stay
If you stay forever, hey
We can stay forever young

Sensible Investing: Good Reads

Zillow's big mistake: An analysis in 5 tweets here. 

A Twitter Troll's take on the future of investing. In Newcomer here. Here's the take (which I basically agree with): 

But who is getting hit hardest by Tiger are mostly older, and frankly lazier, VCs that rode SaaS in particular over the last decade to great wealth but maybe weren’t the best partners to companies.

Tiger and others have shown that in a lot of cases, the emperor has no clothes there. And those folks are also the ones saying, “Oh prices are crazy” and they’re pouting and taking their ball and going home.

But frankly I don’t think most founders today actually want to work with them anyway. So maybe they’re right on pricing?

Bull Case for Coinbase by Hayden Capital - 73 pages here.

The General Index was designed to reduce those obstacles without breaking the law. Developed by the technologist Carl Malamud and his nonprofit foundation Public Resource, the free-to-use index contains words and phrases from more than 107 million research papers, comprising 8.5 terabytes when compressed.

COP26 was this week in Glasgow. Below is the chart accompanied by this caption from the FT, which has to make you laugh at how indirectly they make the point. Here's my take: Let's talk about the elephant in the room. One of, if not the best, public policy action for climate change is providing strong family planning and contraception. 

The majority of people are unable to identify which lifestyle decisions are the most effective at limiting their carbon footprint, according to an international survey of more than 21,000 people across almost 30 countries https://ft.com/content/c5e0cdf2-aaef-4812-9d8e-f47dbcded55c…

Thanks for reading, friends. As always, please be in touch. 

As always,
Katelyn