A close friend of mine has spent years looking for and cataloging diverse children's books. When she shared the list I was overwhelmed by it. I asked her permission to share it here because it's the best list I've seen to date on the topic. Hopefully some of you find as much in this list… Continue reading Diverse Children’s Books
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CBDC & Currency Bandwidth
CBDC is a fascinating topic. Central Bank Digital Currency is simply digital money but at times this feels perplexing. Perplexing because money is mostly already digital and there are plenty of things to consider when creating a CBDC. When money is printed it's because a computer said it was available to print and another computer… Continue reading CBDC & Currency Bandwidth
The Value Layer
The phrase the value layer of the internet is peppered throughout my work. When I say, the value layer of the internet, what I'm speaking to is the immensely complex series of systems that support value exchange across the internet. I've come to think about this as being comprised of access, value types, transfer types,… Continue reading The Value Layer
Solving T+2 Settlement
In a meeting last week we were talking about T+2 challenges. Certainly Robinhood has brought these back to light. Companies these days are commonly raising capital left and right just to fund payments. The thing is, T+2 is going away right before our very eyes and pre-funding requirements are now being solved through various mechanisms.… Continue reading Solving T+2 Settlement
Day Zero
This might as well be a private journal entry and it's certainly an internal narrative found biking in -0º weather and walking alone in the woods during 2 very cold weeks in Iowa. Sometimes time alone just gives you space to think and other times the inspiration from others is just what you need. What… Continue reading Day Zero
World Class API Product Demos
V-Sum_Two wrapped up recently and it was a treat just like the first. Something that really struck me with this series of the technical briefings was the quality of the demos. The three companies that presented were Paxos, Drive Wealth, and Phixius. Drive Wealth and Paxos are both a bit further along in their product… Continue reading World Class API Product Demos
Structuring Founding Team Equity
Founding is hard and the equity topic can range from awkward to really stressful. It's surprising how many founding teams breeze through this discussion but not all do and emotions don't make it any easier. Regardless of the emotions I always come back to similar thoughts... Everything is ideally split evenly with an intellectual desire… Continue reading Structuring Founding Team Equity
FinTech Education Videos from 11:FS
For the first time in a very long time I found myself on youtube while uploading V-Sum_One videos. I ended up with all of these interesting suggestions and two from 11:FS really stuck out to me. Here is their overview of the US banking landscape. They've done a really nice job communicating a great deal… Continue reading FinTech Education Videos from 11:FS
V-Sum_One Tech Briefing Videos
The first V-Sum was this week and it was a lot of fun. The first half of the event was tech briefings and the second half was off the record discussions which are obviously not recorded or shared. I'm pleased to say that tech briefing from V-Sum_One are now available for download on the V-Sum_One… Continue reading V-Sum_One Tech Briefing Videos
V-Sum: A Distributed FinTech Conference
Some friends and I were discussing ways to stay in the loop without our regular conference schedule to expose us to new technologies and the output was V-Sum. It's taken a while to come together but the first event is finally on Oct 14th. It's completely virtual and distributed. There is no cost to attend.… Continue reading V-Sum: A Distributed FinTech Conference