Here are a few links to articles I’ve published in the past week.
- Uberocracy: How the Sharing Economy Changes Politics
- Where Great Products Begin (Medium)
Also of note is that I will be speaking at this year’s Coin Congress SFO event at 11 AM PDT on August 13. I’ll be speaking about how we can decentralize the signaling power of higher education through entrepreneurial ventures. If you’re in the Bay Area, you should come by and say hi!
I also finished George Gilder’s Knowledge and Power this week. If you are interested in economics or general books on entrepreneurship, I recommend it.
While some sections on the evolution of information theory were dense and the author’s presentation of Hayekian orders was weak, the book presents one of the better and more unique defenses of entrepreneurial capitalism that I’ve read. Definitely not convinced by all of the arguments, but appreciated the new perspective.
Gilder decries modern economists — supply- and demand-side alike — for their overlooking of the entrepreneur as the primary driver of progress and economic growth. Gilder takes on everybody from Paul Samuelson, JM Keynes, Ben Bernanke, and Paul Krugman to FA Hayek, Tyler Cowen, Peter Thiel, and Nassim Taleb.
He covers everything from the crash of 1987, the dot-com bubble, and the recent financial crisis of 2007 to quantum information theory, the evolution of semiconductors (and what that means for capitalism), and the rise of Israeli information technology startups to the moral significance of entrepreneurship in a society that values progress and how venture capital makes progress possible.