Marc-David Seidel

What underlying assumptions about centralized trust do you make in your own work? How would instantaneous peer-to-peer trust with no need for a centralized third party change things? If you could meet a stranger and be able to enter into a trusted exchange without needing a third party, what changes in your theoretical perspective on the world? That model of interaction is what distributed trust … [ Read more ]

The Thin Red Line of Success

When competing in an innovative new market the benefits of an early lead can’t be over-estimated.

Editor’s Note: I have read contradictory research on the value of first-mover advantage. This research in particular revolves around commercial aircraft, a product than in very few ways resembles consumer products so I think it unlikely that any comparisons could be fairly made. Still, interesting…