And how my biggest mistake wasn't failing, it was thinking that I couldn't.

🔗: chapin.io/talk-dangers...

I shared how early momentum made me stop asking hard questions.

How I mistook validation for inevitability.

How I started believing the version of the story that sounded best, at the expense of the truth.

Instead, earlier this month, I came back with a post-mortem, a story I've spent nearly five years trying to figure out.

The powers that be are running toward substance, deep knowledge, and credibility.

That's why Wikipedia is now king: hackernoon.com/wikipedia-ru...

It doesn't matter if you think the output is "good." We can tell.

It doesn't matter if your SEO chart is going up and to the right. Won't last.

Constant refreshes: aviators and ice cream and Amtrak for four years, then... that dance.

Opportunity to educate kids.

Opportunity for idiots to vote solely on who they want the mascot to be.

Fun.

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

NextPick is a company rising at the right time as they've launched a three-sided marketplace (athletes/coaches/agents) to centralize it all and bring some order to the chaos: chapin.io/deal-memo-ne...

Rentaba brings modern fintech to the tenant-landlord relationship, including common-sense features that will help young renters, university students, and renters who are here from abroad.

I published a deal memo on the Philly-based company this month - check it out.

More: chapin.io/deal-memo-re...

You can provide direction like (sarcastically), (enthusiastically), or even (laughing) and (sobbing). HUGE leap for people doing bulk content creation with things like ads, etc.

More: hackernoon.com/text-to-voic...