Sean Stein Smith
Accountants Have Learned To Live With Crypto
"Accounting professionals need to learn to live and work with crypto, and standard setters need to be proactive in the creation of crypto-specific standards. Applying standards developed for the 20th…
Why Passenger Railways are Terrible and Freight Railways are Amazing
American railways are the envy of the world. Many might shake a collective head at that statement. In the case of passenger rail that is an appropriate reaction. Since it…
What’s Gone Wrong with the Aramco IPO?
Imagine for a moment, the following: In an industry with global demand there is one organization that has the following advantages. It has the lowest cost of production for its…
The Great Lesson of Vision Fund
A central plan is not a business plan. Even a private sector central plan is doomed to fail.
Blockchain Adoption: Lessons From Innovations Past
The continued blockchain scrutiny and backlash highlights the need for a new approach.
How Are 5G and Libra Connected?
Spectrum and fiat currency alternatives are technologies of the future; governments seek to control both.
Crypto’s Loss Is Blockchain’s Gain
The first wave of inefficient, fake, & fraudulent blockchain apps have been washed out; the survivors are delivering real innovation.
The Market Doesn’t Care About Your Technological Superiority
The greatest contribution that bitcoin might be that it spurred incumbent actors to improve and an entire new industry to develop, not that it swept away the entire monetary and…
Quantum Supremacy Doesn’t Mean Blockchain Is Doomed
Quantum computing, far from destroying blockchain, will spur competitive development.
How the WeWork Mess Proves that Markets Work
WeWork is one of the most high profile examples of a once high-flying organization that was first humbled, and then dragged back to earth due to internal issues that eventually…
