Casino apps are winning in crypto. Computer apps are struggling. Why? And is the Computer vision still worth building toward?

We arrived in Revelstoke, BC, yesterday afternoon. The last time I was here was in 2015, and already I can tell that a lot has changed since then. I'm sure I'll have more to say on this over the next few days, but one of the first things that stood out to me was the city's signage. In 2020, Revelstoke City Council approved a $3.2 million, multi-phase wayfinding plan designed by Cygnus Design Group. So, what I have been seeing are the first completed phases. Wayfinding signage serves (at least...

My dad passed away. The night before he died I told my wife that not only do I love him with my whole heart and then some, but I really like my dad, too. I feel lucky to say that. He was one of the funniest people I have ever known. He was brilliant, resilient, exceptional, a joy to be around, and filled to the brim with love. It was a long goodbye. For years he has suffered from a terrible disease called idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, and things got very tough in the past several months. But...

Marcus Cauchi dropped a sharp take recently that's worth sitting with: "Discovery isn't about finding pain. Pain is already there. If pain created change, buyers wouldn't need you. They would've changed before you arrived." He's poking at something real. The distinction he's drawing—between pain as feeling and constraints as facts—explains a pattern every experienced seller has seen: calls that feel productive, discovery notes that look thorough, and deals that still stall. The usual diagnosi...

Fidelity Digital Dollar (FIDD) will be a U.S. dollar–pegged stablecoin on Ethereum.

Aurora and Tithonus by Auguste Rodin (1905 or 1906)An all-too common position today when it comes to the arts (and creative work in general) is that quality is subjective. The individual consumer’s perception is paramount, and all attempts at subjecting art1 to criteria of quality feel wrong, somehow, mostly because nobody can agree on what those criteria should be in the first place; and because art is always changing. I was inspired to write this essay after reading Clancy Steadwell’s note ...

Hackathons for the AI AgeLast week, Build First facilitated our first company-wide AI hackathon of 2026. You might be thinking, “I’ve heard of hackathons before. It’s when product and engineering leaders show up and build stuff.” Well. That was the old way. In the AI age, anyone can build. So at an AI hackathon, every single person (sales, marketing, operations, finance, and legal) walks away with a functioning mini-app. Yes, the product and engineering leaders often blow us all away with the...

Doppler is the default launch protocol for teams raising capital onchain. We compress months of infrastructure work - token deployment, vesting, liquidity bootstrapping, governance, fee routing - into one unified interface, with price discovery auctions that protect launches from snipers and generate protocol-owned liquidity from day one. Last year, we raised a $9 million seed round led by Pantera Capital, with participation from Variant, Figment Capital, and Coinbase Ventures. In the 9 month...

After the Closures: Where Art NFTs Actually Stand NowOver the past months, several NFT platforms have announced their closure or slow wind-down. This week, I personally withdrew my remaining NFTs from Nifty Gateway and I’m currently in the process of wrapping up with Rodeo. When platforms shut down, the immediate reaction is panic, followed by declarations that “NFTs are dead.” That reaction usually comes from the same place that fueled the hype in the first place: a focus on platforms, liqui...

Just started a new project called Cryptosaurus. Join the waitlist now :)