Good morning everyone.

I am at Heathrow airport on my way to my last leg of my road trip. I am headed to Dublin for a few days of golf with friends.

I have not played golf or picked up a club in a couple of months. I am mostly dreading the game, but it is Ireland and so you play golf, drink and try to stay dry. I shipped my clubs last month to the hotel while I set off on my trip to Toronto.

It is one thing to dread the game and yet another to be on a WhatsApp thread with 11 other guys who can’t get enough of the game and have been shot out of a cannon fresh from Los Angeles.

I stopped in London yesterday on my way from Tel Aviv to have dinner with my good friend (and mentor) JP Rangaswani to catch up on all things finance, markets, data and community. It has become a ritual of mine while in Europe to come through Heathrow and stay out in the country for a night to have a meal with JP. I am not a foodie but I do like good meals and JP knows food. Yesterday he took me for great Indian food. Here is his 2012 Ted Talk titled ‘Information is Food‘ and my beginning of pandemic ‘Panic With Friends‘ chat with him.

We covered a lot of ground yesterday but mostly crypto, web 3 and community.

Later JP shared this 24 year old piece from Amy Jo Kim titled ‘9 Timeless Principes For Building Community‘. I really enjoyed it.

As I am always thinking about community, Stocktwits and a now a new project around building community and utility in a web 3 world, there are some great reminders on how big an opportunity proper community building continues to be.

Have a great day.