Founders

Being an entrepreneur is hard

You're given two opposing directives:
1) Manifest your vision, even when nobody else believes in you
2) Listen to the market and adapt to what it tells you

When do you choose option 1 over 2? 

Nobody can tell you deterministically -- it's an art. Respect to anyone who takes this path

In a world of noise, seek the quiet that leads to clarity and inspiration.

Each morning is a blank canvas; paint it with your passions and dreams, not your fears.

The stars remind us how small we are, yet they inspire us to reach for greatness.

Beneath the surface, we all carry stories that shape our lives in profound and unexpected ways.

Just when you think you've figured it out, the universe throws a curveball your way.

CA politics is 1000x better than national politics.  We argue about housing, high speed trains and AI.

Ethereum

https://x.com/post_polar_/status/1835595429699834087

Summer of Protocols

Starting next week, we'll be presenting the work from the Summer of Protocols '24 cohort across a Protocol Symposium & Unconference ☀️

We'll kick things off with an overview session on Sep 17th, then have daily sessions by each research team, wrapping up with a two day protocol-themed unconference on Sep 27 & 28. 

Teams this year worked on projects ranging from adding E2EE to ActivityPub, improving controlled wildfire protocols, analyzing how the IETF stewards various internet protocols, and a bunch of other things. 

We also gave several small grants to individuals to prototype what we've called "Protocol PILLs": neat little projects to protocol-pill people 💊 

All the info is here: https://summerofprotocols.com/protocol-symposium-2024 !

Protocol Symposium kicks off tomorrow ☀️ 

Will keep a running thread of the daily sessions here. @vgr  and I will kick things off tomorrow with an overview of the SoP '24 research, future SoP plans, and how to participate throughout the week 😁

Join us on Sep 18, 00:00 UTC:

Delver at contraptions.venkateshrao.com, running summerofprotocols.com, host of /gloom ☀️

Protocol Symposium kicks off tomorrow ☀️ 

Will keep a running thread of the daily sessions here. @vgr  and I will kick things off tomorrow with an overview of the SoP '24 research, future SoP plans, and how to participate throughout the week 😁

Join us on Sep 18, 00:00 UTC: https://app.sola.day/event/detail/8660ddd

sonata

Hi Casters. In an effort to post more bangers here I'm going with this new one from Fisher and Flowdan

Hi Casters. In an effort to post more bangers here I'm going with this new one from Fisher and Flowdan 
https://on.soundcloud.com/cwJDF

Music

Every time I listen to Melodrama it's even better than I remembered. Unbelievable stuff.

a collective funding mechanism for +170 Ethereum L1 R&D maintainers 🌿 stewarding our commons infra


@protocolguild : a commons record label for software media

Base

receipts

this is not technically “receipts”content, but you’ve probs seen them all over the leaderboard, so… 

I’m in Belgrade this weekend to cheer on @hamdi and @zain in their first half Ironman! they’re absolutely crushing so far

one more photo from the weekend, to close out this thread: your local triathlon correspondent 🫡

Galactic Scribe

@galacticscribe