Reflections
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2025 best reads
Writing
Before we get to my best reads, here are the three pieces of writing I published this year:
- Notes on China - Some reflections on China after spending two weeks there. People are still underestimating and under-appreciatin...
Notes on China
You can see the future first in San Francisco, but perhaps also in the backseat of a BYD.
I recently spent a few weeks in China. Out of everything, the cars taught me the most. They turned out to be an excellent lens into China’s past and...
MEV and the Limits of Scaling
This is not a theoretical or isolated problem. We can observe it everywhere from Solana, where MEV bots consume 40% of blockspace, to the Ethereum L2 ecosystem. To quantify the impact, we conducted a deep dive on top OP-Stack rollups where...
What I've been reading - March 2025
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After Best reads of 2024, I decided I’d experiment with more regular sharing of what I’m reading. B...
Best reads of 2024
These were the best things that I read in 2024 in no particular order:
- Boom: Boom is a must read for anyone interested in the history and future of technology. Check out my review of it just below for a summary of its arguments and wha...
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