There’s a certain category of “cringe” that is (1) permissible, legally and maybe even morally, but (2) is in bad taste or isn’t good for the world. 

That’s the stuff we should not normalize.

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Media will certainly become highly personalized within the next 2 years, every single one of us watching a different version of a tv show

I’ll take the other side of this. Media will become more niche, but it won’t be personalized. People like shared media experiences. They’d rather consume what their friends consume than something completely unique. 

Maybe there’s some sort of barbell future.

Just scored 50/50, now do state capitals 
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About to get Bavette’s for the first time I’m so hype

People no longer believe that they are individually responsible for making the world better

Multiple weeks FC Top 10, felt unstoppable, then fell off the face of the earth and can’t crack 100 anymore. Call me Jeremy Lin.

Are there any bloggers that write both idea guy personal essays and equities/market analysis?

Robinhood just announced so much stuff they’re building on Ethereum. ETH price doesn’t move. That is a problem.

“Poverty shouldn’t exist” or “unemployment shouldn’t exist” is much better rhetoric than “billionaires shouldn’t exist.” It’s positively framed instead of antagonizing. 

And that’s exactly why nobody ever says those things.

Read some Thoreau and Emerson this morning. We’ve really lost the art of the lecture. People just don’t write great talks like they used to. Different than an essay, often more personal and engaging, written to be spoken.

From a pure trading volume perspective, does a Robinhood L2 compete in the same league as Solana or Base?

next up!

it’s like 24 pages but I found it in book form at a shop the other day and I couldn’t say no

I have had a massive perspective change on crypto. I spent the last 2 months learning the AI dev tools (8-12 hours a day) and rethinking how Product Development works in the age of AI. Most of the AI development community is outside of crypto and that forced me to break outside the bubble and engage deeply with other emerging technology and technologist. I have not really pulled my thoughts together in a nice shareable way but: 

On a positive note, I believe crypto has won. Its stablecoins (ie Stripe) and speculation (ie Polymarket). Game over. 

On a negative note, the cult we built around crypto is beyond dumb, toxic and holding the whole space back. 

But my biggest shift is that there is no "crypto" there is only Internet and crypto primitives are just part of the toolkit for the greater internet. 

My love for cryptocurrencies and its protocol has not changed only my perspective in how it fits in the wider internet.

I no longer work in crypto. I work in tech.

My addition to this is that the reason crypto *isnt* seen as part of “tech” more broadly the way that AI is is largely out of cowardice. 

We didn’t want to compete head-to-head with the best of tech, we were happy to build our own little corner of the internet and complain that we weren’t being taken seriously. 

That has only changed in the last year or so.

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Hacker founder using ai to coordinate onchain economies /tenfold, nounish channel client /comint

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I now believe our desperate need for community is holding us back. There is no crypto, only Internet.

It's easier to be naive than it is to do the work. That's why the lifelong pursuit of knowledge is a moral necessity.

My follower growth on this app has been stagnant for a while but I think I’m cool with it. 8k “real” people makes it feel like my stuff is read and appreciated while also not being too big to where people stop treating me like a person.

Religion is nothing if it is not everything.

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I enjoy watching @nicholas cook. Good energy. From the podcast to the Seed Club work, dude has been killing it.

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