Teemu brought up on Ep. 33 of The Spelunking Podcast a gripe against crypto that I’ve often heard myself: if crypto is so great, then why hasn’t it achieved more penetration in a decade?
The simple answer is that people forget the speed at which the Internet truly developed.
“An Outside Context Problem was the sort of thing most civilisations encountered just once, and which they tended to encounter rather in the same way a sentence encountered a full stop.”
– Iain M. Banks, Excession
My last piece on where prediction markets break down made me realize I hadn’t written about outside context problems here yet.
Outside Context Problems are the most interesting situation one can encounter, when considering pure innovation.
Creativity, innovation, mash-ups, and science fiction writers… as a lens on lessons from the software industry.