The Two Layers of Digital Money: Why Economies Need Both

Two layers of digital money: one spreads opportunity, one extends support. Economies need both.

Oct 9 • 

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September 2025

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 • 

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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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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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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 • 

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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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