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Great products aren't just built—they're strategically designed, carefully validated, and thoughtfully evolved through t...
02/14/2025

Great products aren't just built—they're strategically designed, carefully validated, and thoughtfully evolved through true collaboration. It’s your vision. Let’s make it a reality.
✓ Collaborative approach
✓ 19+ years of success
✓ Oregon-based team

Poor UX isn't just frustrating—it's expensive. Support costs rise, customers leave, and opportunities vanish. Great desi...
02/13/2025

Poor UX isn't just frustrating—it's expensive. Support costs rise, customers leave, and opportunities vanish. Great design pays for itself. Let's get it right the first time.
✓ Strategic approach
✓ 19+ years of success
✓ Oregon-based team

Bitcoin at $98,000: What happens when Wall Street's favorite toy gets options?The crypto landscape is shifting beneath o...
11/22/2024

Bitcoin at $98,000: What happens when Wall Street's favorite toy gets options?

The crypto landscape is shifting beneath our feet. Something fascinating happened this week that hardly anyone noticed.

Bitcoin ETF options just went live. But here's what's really interesting:
• Current derivatives are less than 2% of Bitcoin's market cap
• Compare that to US equities: derivatives are 10-20x the market cap
• 44% of US equity options volume comes from retail traders

Think about that gap for a moment.

We're watching the institutionalization of Bitcoin in real-time. BlackRock's 2025 outlook just called it an "emerging alternative monetary asset" - quite a shift from "magic internet money."

But here's the part that keeps me up at night:
Options markets don't just track assets. They transform them.

As Galaxy Digital's research head puts it: "Over time, as it's more widely held, volatility will decrease."

Translation? The Wild West days of 20% monthly swings might be ending. That's the price of growing up.

Some will miss those crazy gains. But here's the truth: lower volatility means bigger institutional players can finally join the party.

It's like watching your rebellious teenage friend put on a suit and suddenly get taken seriously by the adults in the room.

Welcome to 2024, where Bitcoin's biggest challenge isn't technology - it's becoming respectable.

11/19/2024

The AI slowdown might be the best thing for enterprise adoption.

Here's why: The breakneck pace of AI advancement in 2023 and early 2024 (looking at you o1-preview) made implementations rather challenging. You'd build systems around GPT-3.5 in 2023 only to have the costs for GPT-4 drop out a week later, causing a re-tool over to GPT-4 and a change in your prompting strategy or embeddings. Or OpenAI or Anthropic would release a modest change to their API that would result in a remarkable change in how concise the response is from the API. While these enhancements by the model providers are almost always worthwhile, the constantly changing API landscape for LLMs over the past 24-36 months has been dizzying.

Remember Altman's warning to the Y-Combinator Alumi in 2023. His comments were in effect: “Most GPT-4 limitations will get fixed in GPT-5.” This was his advice to founders to build with the mindset that GPT-5 and artificial general intelligence (AGI) would be achieved relatively soon. He warned that building solutions to merely compensate for the limitations of GPT-4 could be short-sighted, as those limitations would likely be addressed in future models like GPT-5 (aka Orion). Is that still true, Sam? And if so, how true? OpenAI is rumored to NOT be releasing any substantive improvements to GPT-4 or o1 for at least the rest of 2024 and the first part of 2025.

So with the model providers apparently hitting some form of a plateau, we're entering a stability phase. This means:

1 - Reliable API implementations
2 - Sustainable development cycles
3 - Time for real-world integration
4 - Broader market adoption

The Generative-AI revolution isn't about raw power. It's about practical implementation.
Sometimes a plateau is exactly what we need.

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