85/ (The general contents of the first phone call would be "Hey, this is your account manager at $COUNTERPARTY. I was just checking and it doesn't look like we got the upload for today... any color for me? Resubmit window closes in...")
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96/ Examples of this: M-Pesa was one of the world's most advanced (and best distributed in customer set) payment networks within years, and relatively not-too-rich folks using the US->Mexico remittance corridor have much better FX pricing than rich Americans.
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97/ In my experience, more people in the US (and, broadly, Western) financial industries should be paying attention to customer-facing UXes from Asia. QR code payments are probably underestimated, in the same way that QR codes themselves were underestimated.
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98/ Virtually every conceivable subfield on the intersection of these two industries could justify its own hundred tweets blurbing a shelf of books covering a variety of costly learnings. Fraud. Identity verification and management. FX risk. Behavior during financial crises. etc
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99/ All of the professionals in tech and finance who make decisions which affect the systems that your live depends on work on the same Internet you do. Many would be happy to get coffee. Relatively few feel like enough people care about their line of work.
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100/ It occurs to me that in 99 tweets I haven't even mentioned cryptocurrency, which feels appropriate given its demonstrated level of impact. </rimshot> Alright, that was fun. Don't love this form factor, but let me know if subtopics here are worth an essay sometime.
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