All 38 posts, newest first.
Sep 30 — Agents and Stablecoins: Why consumer spending via agents will most likely be with cards in the near-term
Jul 10 — The crypto barbell: Speculation, stablecoins and nothing in-between
Apr 21 — Are content coins good?: New things require iteration but also an open mind
Apr 3 — Farcaster Frames are now Farcaster Mini Apps: Renaming Farcaster frames to Farcaster mini apps
Feb 21 — Software as content: An app for every occasion.
Dec 14 — Bad is the default: It’s entropy.
Nov 22 — Where are the crypto apps?: Why aren’t there more compelling “consumer” crypto “apps”?
Mar 19 — Rome, Sweet Rome meets ChatGPT: Having ChatGPT draft a screenplay for Rome, Sweet, Rome.
Mar 6 — Farcaster ideas: Ideas for stuff to build on Farcaster.
Nov 1 — On subscriptions: Consumer internet monetization in the 2010s vs. 2020s
Oct 14 — Product-led protocol development: If you’re not willing to do it yourself, why would others?
Sep 8 — RSS+: The original brainstorm for what became Farcaster
Jun 20 — Cryptonative domain registrar: What if every domain name was represented as an NFT
Jun 20 — What I’m excited for this build cycle: The Merge, L2s, practical ZKPs and more
Mar 7 — config.xyz: Portable user settings as an NFT.
Feb 5 — Podcasting distribution is the problem to solve: Building a direct connection between podcasters and listeners is unsolved.
Feb 4 — Crypto things I’m excited about: We’re still in the first innning of new crypto primitives.
Dec 31 — 2020 booklist: Books I read in 2020.
Nov 21 — Strava for cooking: Social network for serious amateur cooks
Oct 20 — The toothbrush test: A helpful heuristic I use to evaluate consumer apps is the toothbrush test.
Oct 5 — Significantly worse or non-existent: One important question when evaluating a new product or technology is “will people or companies adopt this?”.
Sep 1 — Good and bad reasons to do an MBA: The pros and (mostly) cons of an MBA for people who want to work in tech.
Jul 29 — Erik Torenberg’s Venture Stories podcast interview: I recently went on the Venture Stories podcast with Erik Torenberg.
Apr 23 — Netscape’s contributions: A short list Netscape’s contributions to the modern Internet.
Mar 23 — COVID-19 learning: A running list of concepts I learned from COVID-19.
Mar 21 — What to watch March 2020: Crowd-sourced recommendations from Twitter on what to watch.
Feb 21 — Jekyll linklog: How to make a Daring Fireball-style linklog with Jekyll.
Feb 19 — Improved Anki stylesheets: A few quick improvements for more legible Anki cards.
Feb 10 — How this website works: An overview of how danromero.org is built and runs.
Feb 4 — January 2020 links: 83 links I found interesting last month.
Jan 28 — iPad at 10: The iPad at 10-years old.
Jan 24 — Startup canon: I often get introduced to people looking to make the jump into startups and Silicon Valley. This is the reading list I send them.
Jan 3 — Coinbase’s pragmatic crypto culture: If there is a defining cultural trait that was responsible for Coinbase’s success it was the company’s pragmatism.
Dec 29 — 2019 favorite RSS subscriptions: I spent a majority of 2019 avoiding Twitter. As a result, most of my Internet consumption originated from blogs, group messaging and email newsletters.
Dec 16 — December 2019 links: Links I found interesting last month.
Dec 16 — 2019 booklist: I had more time for reading this year. I also traveled to several new countries and tried to read a book related to the place I was visiting.
Apr 12 — Next steps: After 5 years, I’m leaving Coinbase at the end of the month.
