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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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@tombeck.eth
Standing for your beliefs is paramount. Your mistakes were not that you followed your principles, it’s that you expected your principles to have a meaningful effect on entities much, much larger than you. You wanted to stand for your principles, and you wanted that action to change things. But it wouldn’t be a principle if you didn’t have to give something up for it.
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Most people measure success with a narrow view: money, prestige, social capital. But there are other important things worth pursuing. Like peace of mind. Your principles buy you peace. It is impossible to have peace of mind if you do not act in accordance with your values. Your peace has a cost. It is always worth paying that cost.
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