Nat Emodi

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There’s the idea of lookism — that better-looking people get unfair advantages: higher pay, more status, etc. Words and ideas have this too. Call it the eloquence effect, where the aesthetics of how someone speaks makes them seem more impressive than they might be. A common trap is mistaking how eloquent someone is — how fluidly they move between topics, how precise or varied their language is — for the actual substance of what they’re saying. Mamdani is a prime example of this. On the flip side, I’ve worked with incredible engineers and business people whose eloquence is average at best, but whose ideas are profound. Learn to tell the difference.

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scams have gotten so weird and niche lately, it's hard to keep up. someone should build a site that simply explains how each one works—a Wikipedia of modern scams.

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Hockey owns the superstition-hair combo in sports—no one does playoff beards like they do. Startups should adopt more of this energy. Raising a seed? Grow a flow. Shipping v1? Shave after GA.

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what’s your current daily driver for LLMs — the model you use the most?

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As much as stablecoin focus is on developing countries, p2p cross-border payments in alot of the developed world is still absurdly archaic. Excited to soon be able to send cash gifts to my nieces in Canada, pay back a UK friend for beers, or tip a tour guide in France — all in USDC — from a single app.

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Mini apps can now ship NFT minting with just an API call to @neynar @highlight smart contracts under the hood.

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most of the energy in crypto has shifted from tokenized culture to tokenized money infra the timing of this shift had some unique catalysts that were long-shots 12 months ago tokenized culture will re-emerge after some broader tech adoption, market rebound, collective memory lapse, and creative experimentation

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why does Claude reference (or claim) 10-20x more sources on research queries vs ChatGPT? testing side-by-side on the same q, and 4o answered after 46 sources while Opus 4 saw 716 (!)

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Great products are really, really hard to build.

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Antimemetics are more inherent to crypto than any other field. It literally runs on short memories, cycles of reinvention, and hidden dynamics that drive behavior but vanish from the narrative.

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The ‘21 NFT bull market was driven in part by the ongoing crisis of meaning in society. We projected meaning, community, identity to fill a growing void. The memecoin trend was the antithesis, a return to the void—anti-meaning, anti-community, nihilism-as-identity. Content coins attempt a synthesis of the two.

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Unless and until we recapture the transcendent dimension of crypto — the deeply political, ideological, and spiritual beliefs that offered a unified vision for a better future — we will never escape stagnation.

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There should be a term for the times when you find the solution and it’s so simple and so obvious you can’t believe it took you so long.

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Autodidacts are many of the most productive people in society. Now every high-slope dropout and late-night tinkerer has a swarm of PhD mentors to patiently teach them the high-value stuff that’s historically been locked inside brains and firms requiring massive amounts of time, money, skill, luck, and status to access.

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If you’re building something big and ambitious and can’t clearly and specifically describe who the user is that you’re building for, and the steps taken to 100% validate their needs, you should stop everything and go figure that out.

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Disruption has never been more palpable than OpenAI and Anthropic racing ahead of slow, sclerotic tech giants who seem — despite every resource imaginable — unable to compete.

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market be damned, there's a lot of amazing sh*t happening in my @highlight live feed rn

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Who is the best, most obsessive front-end engineer you know?

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People complain about the friction canceling the WSJ, but there's no more extractive, insidious product than Figma when it comes to over-charging users. If you try to remove seats from your plan, they add seats. If you try to share a file for review, they add premium seats without telling you. Am I missing something?

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