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Moment of Zen podcast: Marc Andreessen on the political vibe shift for Silicon Valley, Elon as John Galt, and what a Twitter files for the government could reveal. Full episode with @pmarca on 𝕏
@Zuora surveyed nearly 1,000 CFOs, CAOs, Controllers, and VPs of Finance and Accounting across North America, the UK, and France for their Modern Finance Leader report. I invited their CFO, Todd McElhatton, on @TurpentineMedia to break down the results: - 89% are expected to…
This week on Complex Systems, Cate Hall and I talk about agency, cultivating it in oneself, environments/orgs which seem to suppress or encourage it. Also a bit about walking roads less travelled. 00:00 Intro 02:38 Exploring the concept of agency 03:08 Selection effects in…
Campfire just closed a $35 million round with @Accel, @ycombinator, and @FoundationCap! 👏 I finally got @john__glasgow on Tech Finance by @TurpentineMedia to talk about what they’re building. We’ve bumped into each other on the accounting circuit for years, and this…
This week on Complex Systems: Ricki Heicklen and I discuss the trader mindset, adverse selection, pedagogy, and a bit of the art of making decisions with partial information under time pressure.
The newest Complex Systems podcast episode is with Adam Jarvis, discussing local government, delivering projects which touch atoms, budgeting, organizational scar tissue that limits effectiveness, and much more. Also: we're producing some video episodes, including this one.
In case you missed the usual Thursday release: the most recent episode of Complex Systems featured Jennifer Li of A16Z on AI infra.
Talked with @patio11 on Complex Systems about what’s quietly powering the AI era. Every layer of the stack is shifting. We unpacked why the “boring” infra might set apart the next wave of generational companies. We covered agent-native infrastructure, inference platforms, and why…
AI agents need to pay for stuff online. @nemild from @coinbase tells @labenz how the x402 protocol + crypto wallets could finally make HTTP 402 "Payment Required" actually work. From stablecoin mechanics to multi-sig security—this is how AI economic participation might…