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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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Hindsight is 2020. Probably enjoyed and learned a lot based on your decisions. My personal philosophy is always to take the route that makes for a better story. It’s a really privileged thinking, I’d admit that.
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Also, I’m at similar crossroads with ETH. Been holding for nearly 10 years but the bags have been heavy for the last 4 relative to virtually everything else. I still have as much conviction as ever, if not more, thanks to tremendous past and planned technical progress, and a steady adherence of the project to cypherpunk values. But once again it’s possible that my principles are leading me down a suboptimal path. And you know I always look up to you as the wiser trader 😅
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I guess you do experience more of life when you take the scenic detour and have to change a tire in the rain, rather than taking the straight and uneventful highway route
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