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“Biggest learning building in Web3? First principle is still: don’t die — don’t quit, keep finding a way.” Kenzi Merkle sits down with Michael Heinrich (Ø,G) to reflect on the shift from Web2 to Web3: why Web2 often moves from user-aligned to extractive incentives, why Web3 feels fundamentally different,...

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