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Blog of Brian Crain. Short posts on crypto, entrepreneurship, productivity, meditation & more.

Urbit for Interplanetary Computing

I recently did an Epicenter episode with Chun Wang, the founder of one of the leading staking provider Stakefish and a major mining pool F2Pool. One of Chun's interest is humans becoming multi-planetary and that is also a topic that I'm interested in. In the...

The Man Who Solved the Market

I just finished reading The Man Who Solved the Market, a book by Gregory Zuckerman about Jim Simon and his company Renaissance Technologies. Renaissance is the most successful hedge fund in history generating average annual returns of 66% in the roughly thirty years since it...

Checking In

This has been an intense start of the year. At Chorus One, we've been growing fast and going through a lot of change. And as a result, I've been doing too many calls. For me, doing too many calls is not great. A lot of...

Put Yourself First

You cannot expect anyone else to do this for you. You need to sleep and eat. You need some kind of exercise and take care of your health. You need time with friends and family. Maybe you need time in nature. Or to travel. Or...

What I Look For When Interviewing

I was asked by two people that I was interviewing recently what I look for in people. Here is the answer I gave: Curiosity for crypto. I'd like anyone we hire to have a genuine curiosity for crypto. They don't need to be an expert....