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Build the protocol you would ape into yourself
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We understand what you want, because we're degens ourselves. What we're building isn't just some random game. It's the ultimate combination of the things we love about being a degen. It's a freshly opened bottle of beer we're offering to you as we devs will play along right next to you. We're nearly ready to preview, follow /ethxy for updates. For earliest access, join our earlyoor channel: https://t.me/earlyoors
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Personal checklist for angel investing If I were deploying for the next leg of bull cycle, here's what I'd consider green flags: - Teams that have consistently launched things >=3 times in the past 9 months. Could be products or features. - Teams with a (very) opinionated vision for what will work. - Teams that have stayed consistent with thesis but experimented widely with the implementation. - Teams with a history of enriching their early adoptees. - Teams that have been around during a bear cycle and know how to not get demoralized. - Teams with at least one "hit". You can be confident the team knows how to build something that can become popular if they've already done it once. - Teams that espouse a "soul" in their product and communication.
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Short thoughts on building - Building for yourself guarantees you'll have at least one passionate user. Hard to believe but you're already ahead of the majority of new products if you just have 1 user. - Audience building is just finding a few people who really like the same weird stuff you do. Be weird and true to yourself to stand out from the blandness of soul-less products. - There's an inverse relationship between people who are afraid someone might steal their ideas and quality of their ideas. People who are prolific with ideas tend to come up with better ideas and don't mind people stealing one out of a thousand. People with few ideas conflate scarcity of their own creativity with value.
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Picking your own finish line One of my favorite Naval quotes is, "The only real test of intelligence is if you get what you want out of life." It's a magical statement because the only arbiter is you. You have to decide what it is you want. You have to decide the threshold if you've got what you want. Imagine an event in the Olympics where each runner gets to define their own finish line. As long as you crossed your own finish line, you've won. Some runners would place their finish line 1 mm away from the starting line. Other runners would place their finish line a marathon's length away. When asked, "Why did you put the finish line so far away?" They would answer, "Because I love running." https://x.com/j_eth_id/status/1833020161407811660
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What's up with the "Use App" button? It's become customary to make these "landing" pages filled with marketing copy and fancy graphics but zero substance. They have a "Use app" button that users need to press to actually get to the app. Once you actually go into the app, they plunk you down into the deep end with minimal guidance to get that next hit of dopamine. This division between the "marketing site" and "functional app" arose not because its a better product experience but rather it makes it easier to split the work in the company. You can hire a non-technical marketing staff to handle the "face" of the site while engineers focus on the "heart" of the product. https://x.com/j_eth_id/status/1832347990410833941
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We will be locking our early TG channel shortly: https://t.me/earlyoors. This channel will get the earliest notifications for our upcoming project. No marketing fluff, only get pinged when there's something for you to do immediately.
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Consumer Crypto Consumer crypto feels very much like the Homebrew Computer Club era. A bunch of passionate hobbyists making and showing things to each other with low interest from the mainstream. We all feel there's something big there, but for now, we're mostly there for the thrill of building. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak originally set out to sell bare printed circuit boards. They figured whoever bought the circuit boards would order components off a hobbyist supply store and assemble the computer themselves. https://x.com/j_eth_id/status/1831970810916925613/
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We've created an exclusive channel for high signal annoucements that you can leave notifications on: https://t.me/earlyoors There won't be any marketing posts, only signal when there's something actionable to do for our new project
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Firing up the LaTeX, haven't touched it for a decade. Our next chapter will include a big brain whitepaper.
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Every day you don't do what you actually want to do is like being a WSB degen, all-in on speculative options. You don't know when you'll be in a car crash, AGI hits, some black swan catastrophe occurs. The smartest people I know have been diversifying their portfolio into appreciating assets like personal projects, memories and relationships while they still can.
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The best things in life come from people who: - are a little too obsessed with something that doesn't matter - don't care if it works at first because they love tinkering with it - understand something complex so well they can explain it in a simple analogy - understand people and what drives them - always have something new to show you - unpredictable because their mind skips several steps ahead - have a life filled with novel experiences - never fit a preexisting category
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Reliable creativity is one of the rarest and sought after abilities. When you walk into a Tarantino movie, you know that you're going to go through a rollercoaster of emotion. It may take years between his projects, but you know that when something does come out, it's going to be a polished adventure. Once you make a name for yourself for setting a high bar products you create, you'll find a growing audience of ardent fans eager to tune into your next piece. The real magic happens when you stumble across your "Pulp Fiction"; your passion product that happens to capture lightning in a bottle to become the mass market hit. Imagine the satisfaction of giving your o.g. fans the ability to say, "yeah, I knew about him since 'Reservoir Dogs' when he was an unknown indie director". Keep building passionately, 100% shamelessly, churning out what will be called your "early work" on Wikipedia.
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Hemingway once wrote, “All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.” Builder corollary: “All you have to do is fulfill one true need. Build for the truest need that you know.”
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How to build something successful There are two parts to building something successful: the discovery of the need and the drilling of the execution. https://x.com/j_eth_id/status/1830486346625892553
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"Dude" test This is a simple test for gauging your team environment. When you have a heated argument with someone and it’s clear that they’re being unreasonable, what are the chances that you can just say, “Dude.” and they’ll respond, “yeah, you’re right, I’m being unreasonable.” The best people to work with have an exposed button that says, “press me when I’m being unreasonable”. We’re human. We get caught up in arguments and we’ve often experienced times when the thrill of winning the argument prevails over the substance of the argument. The button functions as a “threat dump” (to borrow a MMORPG term) where it’s a chance to return the argument back to its merits. It’s a recognition that you both want to solve the problem and that you both have the self-awareness to understand the cheap temptations of emotional rage.
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My “Feel framework”for a good product would be: 1. Does it advertise what feelings you will feel when using the product? 2. Does it minimize friction before experiencing this feeling? 3. Does it deliver potent feelings as advertised? 4. Does it make it easy to share these feelings with others? The trouble is a lot of products don’t even know what feelings they are trying to target in the first place. When they don’t themselves know, it forces the audience to do the hard work of trying to interpret what the director meant. There is an entire subculture of modern art that revels in esoteric messaging where inaccessibility is a feature. This essay assumes you actually want users. Don’t force your audience to be an art critic. Write out a concrete statement today on what feelings you’re targeting through your product. Have a critical eye on whether the product advertises and delivers on these feelings. https://x.com/j_eth_id/status/1829765770949153218
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There's something noble that strikes deep to the core about a builder armed with nothing but their ideas and keystrokes proving real value in the market.
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Inventions vs. Discoveries The best creations straddle the borderline between invention and discovery. “Invention” implies the specific perspective needed to stumble across something so new. Inventors draw upon their unique backgrounds and personal experiences to distill their creation. “Discovery” implies the fundamental truth in the human condition that powers the creation. Discoveries feel “obvious” in the way that gravity feels obvious. Once you point it out, anyone can verify its effect, but it carries no information on how difficult it was to come up with in the first place. If you’ve created something that somehow feels both new and obvious at the same time, you’re probably onto something big. With this formula, you have both the genetic algorithm and heuristic function to make great things. Set out to broaden your scope of interests to acquire many shots on goal of inventing new thi… https://x.com/j_eth_id/status/1828782568151404915?s=46&t=o_wjrd2C1KrC3_xuuvyuCQ
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It's in the bull you find out who's been building in the bear
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