Recent Netflix Satire Takes Political & Scientific Aim — The Plot Don’t Look Up, the newest craft-work from Netflix, is a Hunger Games meets Independence Day type flick, with a pinch of Christopher Guest, if he’d jumped the shark on cleverness. Here’s the skinny: MIT Doctoral candidate from Michigan State Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence) and Doctor Randall Mindy, (Leonardo DiCaprio), discover…

What Do Crowd Behavior, Impulse Buying, and Tulip Bulbs Have to Do With a One Billion Dollar Meme Coin? — “It’s a feeling. You’re buying a feeling. And what’s that worth?”— Ben Horowitz (a16z) History of Purchase Psychology The history of purchase psychology is both alarming and fascinating. Why a particular market audience gets obsessed with a particular object is an ethereal question about the nature of human consciousness and emergent organizational behavior. Take…

An Essay on The Four Capabilities of The Federal Reserve — “Let there be light. ” — Genesis 1:3 The Day The Dollar Floated Away In order to see where we’re going in this financial evolution, we have to first grasp where we’ve been and where we are. The first chapter in this series, “The Evolution of Money”, discussed the watery nature of money itself, the argument…

10 Ways to Preserve Your Financial Power — Paper cuts are small, but they hurt. This essay is entitled, “Paper Cuts”, and it’s meant to cover all the tiny ways that we lose and a few ways we can gain money. Money is energy, it is a time-locked consolidation of power, and represents freedom of choice. …

Take Control of Your Time and Energy in the World of Web3 — Many people in the web3 space are in more Discord servers than they can count. In these communities, they may have obligations ranging from administrative tasks, to major writing or audio/video assignments, or even nebulous directives like governance coordination. In light of all this, one thing is certain: DAO fatigue…

A Noble Metal Supplanted by Paper Fictions — This article originally appeared on Bankless Publishing. “Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold” — John Muir Eyes Wide Open I vividly remember first learning about Fort Knox. I wasn’t more than a waist-high boy of five or six, but the memory has stuck with me. “A room filled with gold?!”, I…

Spotlight Analysis on Perpetual Protocol Grant Recipients (Part 1) — One of the more frequently used expressions in Decentralized Finance (DeFi) is “money legos”, which refers to tech stacks that allow different applications to fit (or be shoved) into other projects to enhance the quality of user experience of already existing applications. One doesn’t have to reinvent the wheel they…

An Easy 8 Step Process to Open a Web3 Wallet — FADE IN: STEVE, 28, long brown hair, lanky build, clad in a jeans and t-shirt, stares at a desktop computer screen, and begins internal dialogue. VO: “What is this thing? Why doesn’t it open like a regular page? I gotta have a little extension? Ugh.. friggin’ DeFi.” Welcome to: How…

This article originally appeared on frankamerica.com on 9/25/21 Central Bank Owned Commy Crypto First they punt the miners out of the country, now they’ve locked up all the on-ramps to buying, trading, and storing cryptocurrency. Yesterday’s headline on CNBC, “Central Bank Vows Harsh Crackdown on Cryptocurrency”, indicates, “the People’s Bank of China said services offering…