Nico🦊 on Warpcast

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@aviationdoctor.eth

If the last ten years have taught me anything, it’s the importance of patience and thoughtfulness in decision making. I used to hold a double-digit stack of BTC, and sold them all in 2015 in protest of both the project’s technical direction (small blocks, Segwit, Lightning, etc.) and abusive straying from its cypherpunk roots (censorship, Blockstream’s capture, etc). In hindsight, it was an expensive mistake, because the upside of hodling (now I the millions of dollars) was at least two orders of magnitudes greater than the downside (tens of thousands). I wish I had read Antifragile and learned to navigate asymmetrical bets sooner. Not long after, I also resigned in protest of being passed for Partner promotion at a Big Four, against the advice of my peers. I eventually made it at a different firm, but I took a needlessly circuitous route to get there. 1/3

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I love that you share this, it's unusual to have people talk about their mistakes when they can show how great they did instead. We are on the same journey and I also have taken very bad decisions that made me lose a lot of potential money. But I do not regret walking these side paths and I consider this money is what I paid for learning. It's not wasted money, imagine it as money paid for a course or a training on life.

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Also I really value your way to stick to your values. People who would do anything, I mean really anything, for more money, are not worth my attention. Money is a store of value. You can have the money, but having the values directly makes you as rich to me. Please continue having values and protesting even if it's not the short path to $$$. You are a good person🙏

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