May 2020 Learning List

Info from the past month I'd actually consume again.

April 2020 Learning List

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Info from the past month I'd actually consume again.

David Richo's "How to Be an Adult In Relationships" - Selected Highlights

Once we accept that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, we can live wonderfully side by side. As long as we succeed in loving the distance between one another, each of us can see each other as whole against the sky. 

—Rainer Maria Rilke

Pioneer (https://pioneer.app/) - Convexity Machine breakdown

This post breaks down Pioneer (https://pioneer.app/) in terms of being a Convexity Machine.

TLDR;
Pioneer exhibits nearly all of the characteristics of a Convexity Machine(CM).

However, Pioneer's central roles as the gatekeeper limiting participation and the sole Selector stop it short of being a fully fledged CM.

This suggests that Pioneer's only path to venture-scale is expanding both the number of gatekeepers that decide which projects make it into their accelerator and the number of Selectors that bestow status, money, and other rewards to projects.