Yitong

@yitong

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my career path 1) cashier at bakery 2) mechanic at bike shop 3) startup 1 (didn't work) 4) designer at agency 5) designer at coinbase 6) startup 2: agora.xyz

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I was skeptical about the whole "AI will mean everyone gets personal apps" narrative until @charliecf and I each built our own gym tracker apps in a few hours last weekend. I didn't even bother looking for the best app. Just vibe coded the one I wanted cause the dev time was negligible

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All social ills in this country can be traced back to the American Caste system: Top: Prop 13 home owners paying two bananas worth of prop tax / year Mid: Home owners who locked in 3% 30 years fixed mortgage Low: Renters Untouchables: 7% post ZIRP mortgage holders

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If you're interested in what the new reg changes mean for token launches, we're doing a little talk tomorrow with friends from @liquifi & Cooley! Join us to get the TL;DR of the 236 page CLARITY act :) https://lu.ma/y9cdgaom?tk=CTR1O9

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Can someone ELI5 why Jack is wrong? I love stablecoins, but am probably more aligned with Jack than its boosters right now. Feels like the excitement around stables today smells a lot like emperor has no clothes https://x.com/awxjack/status/1931239220204486879

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If you don’t like aspic you simply don’t know it’s already everywhere in stuff you like!

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my most controversial niche food opinion is that xiao long baos and pâte en croute are basically the same food: 1. a layer of dough wrapped around 2. ground meat 3. with aspic

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For startups, i've basically stopped believing in the traditional design interview loop. My dream design interview loop: 1. 30m portfolio review 2. Onsite to produce eng-ready mock in a tiny area Everything else is just noise. Bonus: pick anything in the app, ship 1 PR to make it nicer.

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i wish i could block Facebreaker notifications T_T it's getting quite spammy. i get the viral growth hustle, but need some way on the receiving user end to mute these

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Reflecting on my time at Coinbase as a designer: The most visible thing I did was redesigning app homepage + shipping a new redesigned mobile app. The most valuable thing I did was designing a settings screen for withdrawal limits & new fraud models. Many lessons from this.

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Little known fact is that the ARR of all SaaS companies serving the crypto market summed together is less than $100M 😂, especially when you exclude service revenue / implementation fees that many companies are lowkey misrepresenting. If you rolled all of them up, you'd have a single growth stage company lol. Fireblocks, Chainalysis being the notable exceptions because they serve instos and governments.

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Topics I'd love to see: 1. Where will value capture happen in stablecoin stack 2. End game of the block space wars 3. Cover Coinbase's strategy like Ben covers Facebook/Apple 4. Where project tokens are going 5. Revisiting RWAs with upcoming regulatory clarity 6. Where tokenized equities make sense, where they don't

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there's a great opportunity for a serious business strategy substack for crypto. likely $500k – 1M per year solopreneur business. the competition is so weak and there's so much green field you'd only need to be 70% as good as stratechery to kill it.

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has anyone made an aspic lately? weirdly into these right now and am looking for some recipes!

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the most important thing i've learned this year is that most startups only have one important problem to figure out at a time. instead of improving the all functions generally, as a founder, your job is to correctly identify that one problem, and relentlessly work on it until it's solved

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it's been amazing to watch Hester Peirce & the SEC staff share progress every Thursday like clockwork since january. i genuinely wake up every Thursday excited to see the federal government at work. unbelievable!

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i would loooove for people to start cafes specifically targeted towards working. have wifi. charge differently. embrace coworking and make it fun. guaranteed you can foster a great vibe if you lean into it

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gm – we're starting a dinner club! it's something i've always wanted to do for a long time, so it's amazing to finally get this out in the world! yes, i will print a custom menu every time. dm to join the next one! https://x.com/HOAonchain/status/1922397053260292135

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not enough people appreciate the significance of this strategy imo

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Life pro tip - print a menu when you have guests over for dinner. Takes 5 mins and makes it way more fun! Also helpful to tape up in the kitchen during prep to get organized. Bonus points: buy yourself some card stock and a corner cutter to make it feel super nice

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