Essa mariposa parece uma arte de pano. Ela é linda.

Reputation is really something that people take years to earn and hours to lose.

if you come to mess with me or make fun of something I like = you’ll be talking to yourself

A couple of my thoughts this am. 

Social:
- X got it right
- social media platforms are at bottom of S-curve
- the change of medium is become increasingly apparent, exponentially with recent events 
- Farcaster increases in relevance 

Political:
- rise of Trump has many great similarities to the rise of Dictators, and to Hitler too.
- Trumps character has many great similarities to heroic, positive characters in history
- Miami has an immense political and technological opportunity 

Personal:
- I’m web3 and “build-in-public”fatigued, with many takeaways from my persistent involvement
- conversations with outsiders fall dead when it comes to technological innovation or adoption 
- I’m no longer using Warpcast

Some notes while in transit. 

In many ways, the current state of the Democratic Party reminds me of the classical music industry, which I’m quite familiar with as a professional conductor.

Both have resisted significant change due to the preferences of geriatric insiders.

Both have exhibited a peculiar obsession with identity politics that now dominates their agenda to the point of alienating many people.

Both hold themselves in irrationally high esteem despite increasing operational sclerosis and cultural irrelevance.

Both are manifestations of “champagne socialism,” wherein elites cosplay as progressives through participation in liberal rituals, while in reality eschewing any change that would court lower classes.

And on the current trajectory, both are headed towards decline, defeat, and the dustbin of history.

Some of my thoughts on classical music vs. politics.

You shouldn’t be talking at conferences if your product isn’t live

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Te quiero porque tu boca sabe gritar rebeldía.

Neo

@cei