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The day I decided to try out Dune Analytics happened to also be a few days before Uniswap’s highly anticipated v3 launch. There were a few burning questions I had going into the launch: How does this impact how much Uniswap is used? Does v3 impact what pairs Uniswap is used for? Where is and isn’t v3 being adopted? A few hours later, I started getting some answers.

The first topic I want to touch on is wallets. In order for us to use any crypto-based application, we first need to set up our own wallet. Whether you believe that crypto is legitimate or not, this wallet-based system may show us how we'll be using the internet in the future.

Nothing recently has struck me quite like Paul Graham's latest essay "What I Worked On." I definitely had to leave a lot of important detail out when writing my own "What I Worked On" thread, but it was highly therapeutic. I knocked it out in about an hour, but I was physically shaking while I was writing it. But, I'm glad I did it. Here it is.

My jaw dropped. I felt like I was getting a look into the future of businesses and startups. Looking at creator businesses through the lens of customer loyalty helps explain why I think they'll lead a new wave of massive-scale businesses.

I recently realized that I do my best thinking when I’m on a walk and have some type of background noise playing on my headphones. I feel like I can actually focus and work through my brain without feeling the urge to check my phone or laptop or anything else.

Are “wide-open” social networks the way that we should be interacting with each other? Maybe we should return to our roots in the physical world and build focused communities? Communities with shared interests and ideas, where people feel like they belong.

I’ve been told that I used to be a very curious person. Somewhere along the line I lost it, and now I’m trying to get it back. I’ve effectively created a system where I can choose what stays with me in the long-term. Having a reliable method to actually keep track of everything, rather than forgetting everything after a week, makes me so much more excited to discover and analyze new things. For one of the few times in my life, it makes learning, and following my curiosity, actually fun.

Welcome back to Product/Michael Fit! I almost spelled November wrong, so get ready for a good one. My week has once again been non-stop research and writing. I’m not sure if Black Friday/Cyber Monday week is peak of craziness, or if it’s just the release of pent up marketing energy and speculation. That remains to be seen, but early indicators look super interesting. Based on one research firm’s data, it appears that Etsy made the biggest leap in 2020, followed by Nordstrom, Amazon, and Walmart.

Well, this was another nuts week (x2). For this volume, imagine yourself on a cross-country flight, with minimal turbulence, and noise-canceling headphones to drown out all of the sounds around you. Because that’s how I listened to pretty much everything that I’m mentioning below.If you’re new (welcome!), this is Product/Michael Fit, a series where I share my favorite pieces of content from the past week(ish), along with my own takeaways. Subscribe here or on my Substack to get on the email list, and find me on Twitter @MSilb7.

Hello, hello, welcome to the most anticipated event of the week: Volume 2 of Product/Michael Fit! If you missed volume 1 from last week, check it out here (Writing Like a PM, The WWW MVP, and Tech is Dangerous) For this volume, my "week of interesting content" was really just packed into the weekend. Why? Well, 1) Our every 4 years experience of the United States' paint by number game (and "breaking news" alerts with zero substance), and 2) Turns out that working in consumer experience for an ecommerce company during the holidays demands a lot