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Redesigning Money: Stablecoins and the Everyday Economy
Designing money as a digital product for how people actually earn today
Sep 11 • 
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July 2025

Finance’s Format Moment: What Stablecoins Make Possible
What the rise of Netflix and Spotify can teach us about where stablecoins are headed.
Jul 22 • 
Valla Vakili
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June 2025

Are We There Yet? Crypto, AI, and the Search for a Way Out
Technologies used to promise better tools, but crypto and AI promise something bigger: escape from the world we're stuck in. What happens when belief…
Jun 5 • 
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3
AI Agents and Human Constraints
We're building AI agents that can move freely across digital platforms while keeping humans locked within them. We marvel at machines exercising…
Jun 5 • 
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4
The AI Mirror
AI is a mirror for uncomfortable truths about how we work and what we value. What it reflects back might surprise you.
Jun 5 • 
Valla Vakili
3
When Business Escapes the Firm
The biggest changes reshaping business today don't start inside companies. When business escapes the firm, leaders have to meet it on new ground.
Jun 5 • 
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The Age of Shock
The 21st century has been shaped more by shocks than by the planned progress we once imagined.
Jun 3 • 
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