Drew Volpe

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Hunter with a Swatch x Omega Lava

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"Glow starts with people and a simple premise. If you want to steer capitalism towards better outcomes, you don’t need to overhaul the system. You just need to tip the incentives towards the right outcomes." Fmr Protocol Labs researcher, Vik Kalghatgi, on Glow https://glow.org/blog/there-and-back-again

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Intuitively, I really want to believe in UBI but study after study shows it just doesn't work. New one on families that got $1k / mo showed zero improvement in educational outcomes, school attendance, food security, or parental satisfaction.

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Realized today that the Volvo SUV I take my son to soccer in is a full second faster 0-60 than the Lamborghini Countach I had posters of as a kid. Tech progress sneaks up on you.

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Today’s brew: George Howell’s La Minita. I taste orange, earl grey, and some chocolate notes. Lingers on the mouth a while. Really good. 4.5/5

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another case of regulations being worse for retail: when SVB imploded, USDC fell to $0.87 on exchanges but Circle still redeemed institutional clients at $1.00. And unregulated Tether traded at 1.06 because people trusted it more (for good reasons).

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"This simple promise of 1:1 redemption, known as par-value exchange, is more complicated than many realize and depends on a series of assumptions." Good work from MIT DCI on stablecoins: https://www.dci.mit.edu/dci-news/stablecoin-redemptions-for-some-not-all

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Minute by minute of how coffee changes during a roast. At George Howell coffee.

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Boundless launches the Signal, an open-source ZK consensus client that distills Ethereum finality into a single proof. Congrats to the team! 👏🏻 https://signal.beboundless.xyz/

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Windsurf acquisition saga keeps getting weirder. Glad for employees https://x.com/cognition_labs/status/1944819486538023138

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Think I’m going to pay my kids to dig ditches in our yard just so they can always claim “I started my career digging ditches”

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a lot of rumors around the Windsurf / Google deal. Natasha's a great reporter and I believe this is what actually happened: - Employees with vested shares will receive cash – Employees who joined less than 12 months ago are not vested and won’t get payouts under current terms – Windsurf negotiated to keep $100M+ on its balance sheet; company will shift focus to enterprise customers - Remaining company will now be employee owned https://x.com/nmasc_/status/1944241072265474090

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Homemade orecchiette, made w/ the 11 yo.

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Brewed this today. Bright with floral, apricot, tea notes. 4/5

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Cortado and beans from Pavement in Boston.

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“NIH will no longer seek proposals exclusively for animal models.” Love to see it. https://www.drugdiscoverytrends.com/nih-announces-end-to-funding-for-animal-only-studies/

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I was explaining how gas lights work to my 11 yo and learned that Boston still has 2,800 gas street the city maintains.

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Hydrangeas doing well this year.

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Happy 4th from Cape Cod

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