Neural Configuration and Consciousness We are making our way through Lisa Feldman Barrett’s deeply compelling book, How Emotions Are Made. It speaks of the latest scientific understanding of the functioning of the brain — a compex collection of networked neurons continuously firing to generate a narrative model of the reality we experience. Brain activity…

This is Jim Cramer, in the early days. This is his performance relative to the S&P 500. It is not higher than the index.

There’s a big difference between belonging to a community that you simply like, and a community that will make you *rich*. Fintech is something some people are interested in, but crypto is something that can make people rich.

Tick-tock, it’s SPAC o’clock. We are barely into 2021, and 144 SPACs have already IPOed this year, compared to 248 of last year. The average size is about $300 million, and quite a few are focusing on Fintech and financial services. …

We want to talk about Hashmasks. And in particular, the one selling for $650,000. That, in the context of the $3.5MM Beepl art sale, and $1.7MM Rick and Morty NFT sale. …

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We gaze with wonder at over $1 billion in raises announced last week, and over $10 billion in Fintech company value creation. Let’s look collectively at Checkout.com raising $450 million at a $15 billion valuation, Affirm more than doubling after its IPO to $30 billion, digital lending enabler Blend raising…

Over the last 12 years, $1 trillion of value has appreciated into existence. It may be a little more or a little less tomorrow, give a few $100 billion. It may one day reach $10 trillion, or $100 trillion, or stay at $1 trillion forever. It may even go to…

You are here, in 2021, and everything is roaring. Bitcoin has never been more valuable, hitting $34,000 and $630 billion in market capitalization. Cool, smart, memetic digital gold. Ethereum has never been more functional and economic, and flying 10x since its lows back to $1,000, over $100 billion in market…