2022 was Really Weird
crypto, commodities, fed, vc, housing, and humans
What a year!!
As a quick update on me: Oh my goodness, this year has been a gift - thank you so much for coming on this ride with me. I have had the opportunity to interview Mary Daly, President and CEO of the San Francisco Fed (?a dream?), spoke at MIT, taught a class on crypto, appeared on Plant Money, Marketplace, Fast Company, and Bloomberg, wrote for the NY Times, and so much more. Thank you for being here. I am endlessly grateful for your support. Very excited for 2023 and please reach out with any thoughts or suggestions you might have!
This is going to be a more concept focused piece, with reflections on core ideas that I think1 shaped 2022. The following three quotes are some of the most emblematic of what this year brought us -
“It is easier to fool a man than to convince him he has be fooled” - Mark Twain
"Panics do not destroy capital. They merely reveal the extent to which it has been previously destroyed by its betrayal into hopelessly unproductive works” -John Mills
“One of …
